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

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.

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

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

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.

There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.