In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

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.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Liberty is a product of order.

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

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