Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.
For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
Liberty is a product of order.
The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.