When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

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.

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

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

As long as there is poverty there will be gods.

Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.