When Great Questions End, Little Parties Begin.

War Both Needs And Generates Certain Virtues; Not The Highest, But What May Be Called The Preliminary Virtues, As Valor, Veracity, The Spirit Of Obedience, The Habit Of Discipline. Any Of These, And Of Others Like Them, When Possessed By A Nation, And No Matter How Generated, Will Give Them A Military Advantage, And Make Them More Likely To Stay In The Race Of Nations.

The Best Security For People's Doing Their Duty Is That They Should Not Know Anything Else To Do.

Not Only Does A Bureaucracy Tend To Under-government In Point Of Quality; It Tends To Over-government In Point Of Quantity.

Civilized Ages Inherit The Human Nature Which Was Victorious In Barbarous Ages, And That Nature Is, In Many Respects, Not At All Suited To Civilized Circumstances.

The Reason Why So Few Good Books Are Written Is That So Few People Who Can Write Know Anything.