For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.

The corrupt man is nearly always rootless, deeply aware of his rootlessness.

It is precisely when we help one another that we gain our victories over corruption, but the victory is assured only when we help one another with all our strength.

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.

It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.