With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.

War is the Health of the State.

No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.