The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

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.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

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

Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized--the question involuntarily arises--to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.