So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

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.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?