Quote #7647
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography...
Quote #31147
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away...
Quote #23362
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it...
Quote #31803
Be not astonished at new ideas for it is well known to you that...
Quote #12054
Orthodoxy means not thinking – not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
Quote #18997
The absence of war is not peace.
Quote #14894
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Quote #30764
The best way not to have people in your way is to let them...
Quote #32221
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science...
Quote #29975
…the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.