To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.
A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.
The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side.
The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.
The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.
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.
Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.
Politics is activity in relation to power.
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.