Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."

The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors.

... the death of the spirit which threatens every man unless he is conscious of the danger and has a real purpose which can keep it alive and enable it to thrust its way through the choking weeds and thorns to the air and to the sun

To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading.

Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.