Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.

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.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.