Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice. - Will Durant

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

If race or class war divides us into hostile camps, changing political argument into blind hate, one side or the other may overturn the hustings with the rule of the sword. If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all; and a martial government, under whatever charming phrases, will engulf the democratic world.