“In the novel, the memory hole is a slot into which government officials deposit politically inconvenient documents and records to be destroyed."”

“We will next proceed by the lamp of experience, consulting with care the observations deposited in the records of astronomy.”

“I need my memories. They are my documents.”

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ”

“The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.”

“Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory: nothing can come of nothing.”

“The agenda, as I conceive of it, is the list of subjects or problems to which government officials, and people outside of government closely associated with those officials, are paying some serious attention at any given time.”

“Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.”

“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”

“"We the people" tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. "We the people" are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which "We the people" tell the government what it is allowed to do. "We the people" are free.”