Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth. - Bertrand Russell

A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.

Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.

One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism, as much as to the Church of Rome.