Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.