The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side.

Man as a pure animal does not exist.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.

The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

Capitalism is not an economic system but a world outlook or rather a part of a whole world outlook.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.

This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.