A shell in the pit,” said I, “if the worst comes to worst will kill them all.”The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism. I...

A man’s interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.

[T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise or foolish regarding the war on terrorism; it is, rather, the way that the past decade has splintered...

Government in its infancy had no regular and permanent form. For want of a sufficient fund of philosophy and experience, men could see no further than the present inconveniences, and never thought of providing remedies...

Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we...