So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal that no two people can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.