People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Defense • Sacrifice • Security
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
Conflict • Defeat • War
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
Knowledge • Reading
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
Discipline • Education • History
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
Happiness • Life
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
Dictatorship • Power • Revolution
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Animals • Equality • Justice
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Expression • Freedom • Rights
