The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
“One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.”
“By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.”