Liberal democracy may constitute the "end point of mankind's ideological evolution" and the "final form of human government."

The past is not behind us; it is within us.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.