In every remodelling of the present, the existing condition of things must be supplanted by a new one. Now every variety of circumstances in which men find themselves, every object which surrounds them, communicates a definite form and impress to their internal nature. This form is not such that it can change and adapt itself to any other a man may choose to receive; and the end is foiled, while the power is destroyed, when we attempt to impose upon that which is already stamped in the soul a form which disagrees with it.

Every development of truths which relate to human nature, and more especially its active manifestations, is attended with a wish to see worked out in practice …

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we are at no loss to perceive that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolut…

All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collision…

The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself:They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to …

I have gone to a safe house, as they say, so I might as well have a different name

It's not the career politicians that I care about. I want to get them out just like Arnold did in California, and, after that, we'll get the Californians out o…