The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

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.

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

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.