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

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.