To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

For such is the noble nature of man, that his heart will never wholly lose itself in one single passion or idol, or, as people call it apologetically, one idea. On it goes from one...

And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.

He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.

On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all...