The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.