"There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war." — Will Durant

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.