If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.

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

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.

A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.