“In reality everybody shares a guilt in everything, yet people are not aware of it. If they would know it, Paradise would come to Earth immediately.” — Dostoyevski, Brothers Karamazov.

  Corruptio optimi pessima.

“We all love to stray along the edge of a precipice.”

— Krizhanitch.

“I demand races of orbic bards, with unconditional and uncompromising sway. Come forth, sweet democratic despots of the West! — Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, London, 1888, p. 59. “Fascism is anything but a conservative form.”
— W. H. Chamberlin, Confessions of an Individualist.

“England, England, how I prayed for England!” — St. Vincent de Paul.

“Democracy, I do not conceyve, that God did ever ordeyne as a fitt government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed? As for monarchy and aristocracy, they are both of them clearly approoved and directed in Scripture.” — John Cotton.

“A nation is not what it considers itself to be in time but what God thinks about it in eternity.” — Vladimir Soloviev, cited by E. Tavernier in the preface to Trois Entretiens, Paris, 1916.

“Nothing is more characteristic of the intellectuals of our generation than their failure to understand what it is that is happening to their world, and nothing explains their failure as precisely as their unwillingness to see what they have seen and to know what they do truly know. — Archibald Macleish, The Irresponsibles.

Politics is like the legendary sphinx who devoured all those who could not solve her riddles.— Rivarol.

“Humanity without Nationality is empty, nationality without humanity is blind.” — Werner Sombart, Vom Menschen.

“The genuine Whig was a conservative, for he rested his claims on the ancient Constitution of the Kingdom.” — A. Carthill, The Legacy of Liberalism.