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

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

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

Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.