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

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.

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

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.