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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or read more
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or the last.
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more read more
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.
The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as read more
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.
The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once read more
The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.