Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.

I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism has come to be applied, is neither its functioning for profit nor its dependence upon legally protected private property; but the presence of a Proletariat, that is of men possessing political freedom, but dispossessed of economic freedom, and existing in such large numbers in any community as to determine the tone of all that community.