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This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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It's a scary word, 'cancer.
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The worst of this ever growing cancer of Statism [ie big 'paternal' government - socialism, communism and fascism] is its moral effect. The country is rich enough to stand its frightful economic wastage for a long time yet, and still prosper, but it is already so poverty-stricken in its moral resources that the present drain will quickly run them out.
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We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.
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Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.
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Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
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...the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
