书籍是最安静且最恒久的朋友。

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.

自由并非存在于对自然法则的梦幻般的独立之中，而是存在于对这些法则的认知中，以及由此产生的有系统地使它们朝着明确目标发展的可能性中。