Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain — because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.

Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have been and always will be. There is a vast difference, which most people will never comprehend, between viewing future history as it will be and viewing it as one might like it to be. Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.