You do not defend a world that is already lost.

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

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

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

Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity.

Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.

This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.