Liberty is a product of order.

Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.