We need a new political science for a new world.

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.

If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased.

I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. As far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion more to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself.

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.