We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.

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

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

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

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.