History Is Always Repeating Itself, But Each

If Man Asks For Many Laws It Is Only Because He Is Sure That His Neighbor Needs Them; Privately He Is An Unphilosophical Anarchist, And Thinks Laws In His Own Case Superfluous.

Power Dements Even More Than It Corrupts, Lowering The Guard Of Foresight And Raising The Haste Of Action.

Civilization Begins With Order, Grows With Liberty, And Dies With Chaos.

We Are Living In The Excesses Of Freedom. Just Take A Look At 42nd Street And Broadway.

A History Of Civilization Shares The Presumptuousness Of Every Philosophical Enterprise: It Offers The Ridiculous Spectacle Of A Fragment Expounding The Whole. Like Philosophy, Such A Venture Has No Rational Excuse, And Is At Best But A Brave Stupidity; But Let Us Hope That, Like Philosophy, It Will Always Lure Some Rash Spirits Into Its Fatal Depths.