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Churchill & Orwell The fight for freedom by Thomas E. Ricks

“As Orwell once wrote, “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”—most especially, for him, facts that they did not want to acknowledge.”

“For democracies to thrive, the majority must respect the rights of minorities to dissent, loudly.”

“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.”

“the theme that runs powerfully through all of Orwell’s writings, from his early work on Burmese Days through the late 1930s and then through the great essays, and into Animal Farm and 1984, is the abuse of power in the modern world by both the left and the right.”

“It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”