The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

Education is the transformation of civilisation