| Social evolution is an interplay of custom with origination. |
| Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. |
| The only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints. |
| The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. |
| There is no humorist like history. |
| The historian will not mourn because he can see no meaning in human existence except that which man puts into it. |
| War is a nation’s way of eating. |
| Animals eat one another without qualm; civilized men consume one another by due process of law. |
| The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character. |
| It may be true, as Lincoln supposed, that “you can’t fool all the people all the time”, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country. |
| The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. |
| To check the growth of inequality, liberty must be sacrificed. |
| Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. |
| Inequality is not only natural and inborn, it grows with the complexity of civilization. |
| Man, not earth, makes civilization. |
| Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically. |
| Economic development specializes functions, differentiates abilities, and makes men unequally valuable to their group. |
| War is one of the constants of history, and has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war. |
| Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice. |
