Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies