A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.

Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.

Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves.

Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns.

The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the most absolute of kings.

It is as futile and dangerous to aim at making of society one large family, as sentimental socialism seeks to do, as to aim at making of it one large team, as positivist socialism seeks to do.

Power changes its appearance but not its reality.

In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.The fool is cured by “reason, ” “progress, ” alcohol, work.

Over the last fifteen months we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been to fifty-seven states. I think, one left to go.

But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.

Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.

Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

If your selfish goal will be useful to humanity, then let your selfish goal be triumphant!

We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

Being alive is being aware, being able to be touched and moved and changed, being able to respond rather than to react, being able to see and hear.