“To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.”

“I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other.”

“Those who try and destroy another person's character with lies...end up destroying themselves in the process.”

“Socialism tends to destroy wealth. Socialism does this by drainingits vitality away. It does this by destroying the desirability of wealthas a wholesome value. Socialism kills the chance that any communitycan survive by browbeating the concept of vested ownership, onwhich community survival is always dependent in the end.”

“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, themost serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the central issue in history as the development of Freedom. History was not a blind concatenation of events, but a meaningful whole in which human ideas concerning the nature of a just political and social order developed and played themselves out. And if we are now at a point where we cannot imagine a world substantially different from our own, in which there is no apparent or obvious way in which the future will represent a fundamental improvement over our current order, then we must also take into consideration the possibility that History itself might be at an end.”

“How many pessimists end up desiring the things they fear, in order to prove they are right?”