Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

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.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.

Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.