History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's John F. Kennedys readiness to use it. Elie Abel, The Missile Crisis (1966) Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The mills of God grind slowly.

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.