Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make a single stroke between day and night: the precise moment does not matter. There was no painted sign to say: 'You are now entering Imperium.' Yet it was a very old road and the voice of history was saying: 'Whether you know it or not, the act of crossing may be irreversible.' And now, not far ahead, is a sign that reads: 'No U-turns.'

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.