Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.

Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that lurks under civilization and emerges in our dreams, crimes and wars? ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.