So Long As War Is The Main

In Early Times Every Sort Of Advantage Tends To Become A Military Advantage; Such Is The Best Way, Then, To Keep It Alive. But The Jewish Advantage Never Did So; Beginning In Religion, Contrary To A Thousand Analogies, It Remained Religious.

Under A Presidential Government, A Nation Has, Except At The Electing Moment, No Influence; It Has Not The Ballot-box Before It; Its Virtue Is Gone, And It Must Wait Till Its Instant Of Despotism Again Returns.

Capital Must Be Propelled By Self-interest; It Cannot Be Enticed By Benevolence.

A Highly Developed Moral Nature Joined To An Undeveloped Intellectual Nature, An Undeveloped Artistic Nature, And A Very Limited Religious Nature, Is Of Necessity Repulsive. It Represents A Bit Of Human Nature A Good Bit, Of Course, But A Bit Only In Disproportionate, Unnatural And Revolting Prominence.

What Impresses Men Is Not Mind, But The Result Of Mind.