Orwell Has Always Been A Huge Influence

Politics? Boring? Politics Is History On The Wing! What Other Sphere Of Human Activity Calls Forth All That Is Most Noble In Men's Souls, And All That Is Most Base? Or Has Such Excitement? Or More Vividly Exposes Our Strengths And Weaknesses? Boring? You Might As Well Say That Life Itself Is Boring!

Another Of Cicero's Maxims Was That If You Must Do Something Unpopular, You Might As Well Do It Wholeheartedly, For In Politics There Is No Credit To Be Won By Timidity.

I Think That Whenever A Nation Feels Itself To Be At Is Zenith, It Starts To Feel A Creeping Sense Of Anxiety.

History Is Too Important To Be Left To The Historians.

My Greatest Regret As A Writer Is That I've Never Been Able To Include As Many Jokes As I'd Like.