Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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.

Liberty is a product of order.

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

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

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

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