With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.

War is the health of the state.

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.

All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.

Those lose least who have least to lose.

Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.

If I am the nominee I will not run as an independent.

People are different from each other

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

There was a fire in the wide hearth before them, and it was burning with a sweet smell, as if it were built of apple-wood.

For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name