I hope, or I could not live.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky rained heroes upon the astonished earth. Surely the last fights of mankind were the best. What was the heavy pounding of your Homeric swordsmen, what was the creaking charge of chariots, besides this swift rush, this crash, this giddy triumph, this headlong sweep to death?

What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.