If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."