Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of information, exercises, and even pastimes for children; and in this educational progress we can see the history of the world's culture delineated in faint outline.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.