Education is the transmission of civilization.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.

Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.