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Quote DB :: Authors :: George Orwell :: View Quote View Quote "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Copy to Clipboard   --  George Orwell Listed in: War & Peace Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.83  Rate Quote 150 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from George Orwell "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." "He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future." "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face -- forever." Top 5 quotes from War & Peace "Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago." "I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts." "Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal." "A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." "If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!"

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