Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

...as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful

For every person in the world to reach the present U.S. level of consumption with existing technology would require four more planet earths.

We need to know almost frozen in time what was known by the government before the planes hit the World Trade Center.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.