Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.

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

Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.

The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.