The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.

Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.