Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

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

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.

Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.