It Is Possible To Lead

History Knocks At A Thousand Gates At Every Moment, And The Gatekeeper Is Chance. We Shout Into The Mist For This One Or That One To Be Opened For Us, But Through Every Gate Are A Thousand More. We Need Wit And Courage To Make Our Way While Our Way Is Making Us.

The Death Of The Contemporary Forms Of Social Order Ought To Gladden Rather Than Trouble The Soul. Yet What Is Frightening Is That The Departing World Leaves Behind It Not An Heir, But A Pregnant Widow. Between The Death Of The One And The Birth Of The Other, Much Water Will Flow By, A Long Night Of Chaos And Desolation Will Pass.

Slavery Is The First Step Towards Civilization. In Order To Develop It Is Necessary That Things Should Be Much Better For Some And Much Worse For Others, Then Those Who Are Better Off Can Develop At The Expense Of Others.

Science Even More Than The Gospel Teaches Us Humility. She Cannot Look Down On Anything, She Does Not Know What Superiority Means, She Despises Nothing, Never Lies For The Sake Of A Pose, And Conceals Nothing Out Of Coquetry. She Stops Before The Facts As An Investigator, Sometimes As A Physician, Never As An Executioner, And Still Less With Hostility And Irony.

Laws To Suppress Tend To Strengthen What They Would Prohibit. This Is The Fine Point On Which All Legal Professions Of History Have Based Their Job Security.