When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision. And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young.

There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.