Communism is the opiate of the people.

Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.