Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.
Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.
The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.