When Liberty Becomes License, Dictatorship Is Near.

There Is Hardly An Absurdity Of The Past That Cannot Be Found Flourishing Somewhere In The Present.

Every Form Of Government Tends To Perish By Excess Of Its Basic Principle.

So I Should Say That Civilizations Begin With Religion And Stoicism: They End With Scepticism And Unbelief, And The Undisciplined Pursuit Of Individual Pleasure. A Civilization Is Born Stoic And Dies Epicurean.

For You Will Sorely Miss Civilization If It Is Sacrificed In The Turbulence Of Change.

And Last Are The Few Whose Delight Is In Meditation And Understanding; Who Yearn Not For Goods, Nor For Victory, But For Knowledge; Who Leave Both Market And Battlefield To Lose Themselves In The Quiet Clarity Of Secluded Thought; Whose Will Is A Light Rather Than A Fire, Whose Haven Is Not Power But Truth: These Are The Men Of Wisdom, Who Stand Aside Unused By The World.