Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O'Brien: You do not exist.

There could be nothing, he reflected, to equal a government which was simply the honest enforcement, by means of the sword, of the laws of Islam.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Frankly I m fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values Our families have values But our government doesn t

By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.

The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in bring­ing Adolf Hitler into power in 1933.

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, that two become a lawfirm, and that three or more become a congress. -John Adams

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

The history of our country has taught us, above all, the virtue of patience. It will be many generations before we can have the conditions we seek.

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that’s the best place to hang a noose. More politicians need to be sticking their necks out for us.