The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.

When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.