 Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate. |
| Man as a pure animal does not exist. |
| Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea. |
| Liberalism is Rationalism in politics. |
| Politics is activity in relation to power. |
| A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force. |
| To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them. |
| The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing. |
| The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism. |
| Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period. |
| The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant. |
| Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective. |
| As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts. |
| The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war. |
| If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them? |
| A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible. |
| The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side. |
| To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary. |
| 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. |
| The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy. |
