There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.