A Statesman Cannot Afford To

A History Of Civilization Shares The Presumptuousness Of Every Philosophical Enterprise: It Offers The Ridiculous Spectacle Of A Fragment Expounding The Whole. Like Philosophy, Such A Venture Has No Rational Excuse, And Is At Best But A Brave Stupidity; But Let Us Hope That, Like Philosophy, It Will Always Lure Some Rash Spirits Into Its Fatal Depths.

Civilizations Come And Go; They Conquer The Earth And Crumble Into Dust; But Faith Survives Every Desolation.

How Much More Suffering Is Caused By The Thought Of Death Than By Death Itself.

Tolerance Grows Only When Faith Loses Certainty; Certainty Is Murderous.

The Future Never Just Happened. It Was Created.