The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

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.

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.