History Is Mostly Guessing; The

Power Dements Even More Than It Corrupts, Lowering The Guard Of Foresight And Raising The Haste Of Action.

The Islamic Conquest Of India Is Probably The Bloodiest Story In History. It Is A Discouraging Tale, For Its Evident Moral Is That Civilization Is A Precious Good, Whose Delicate Complex Of Order And Freedom, Culture And Peace, Can At Any Moment Be Overthrown By Barbarians Invading From Without Or Multiplying Within.

There Is No Significant Example In History, Before Our Time, Of A Society Successfully Maintaining Moral Life Without The Aid Of Religion.

The Fear Of Capitalism Has Compelled Socialism To Widen Freedom, And The Fear Of Socialism Has Compelled Capitalism To Increase Equality. East Is West And West Is East, And Soon The Twain Will Meet.

The Trouble With Most People Is That They Think With Their Hopes Or Fears Or Wishes Rather Than With Their Minds.