Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, Those who can, do, those who cant, teach, forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.