"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
"A joke is a very serious thing."
"Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened."
"All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind."
"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."