There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.

Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.

by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them

Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that lurks under civilization and emerges in our dreams, crimes and wars? ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

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

Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.