History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

Cultivate your garden… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you … follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony… In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.

When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

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