世界上最成功的社会是那些能够将强大的国家与法治和民主问责制结合起来的社会。

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

最好的故事是那些与人类经验产生共鸣的故事。

The state, therefore, has not existed from all eternity. There have been societies that did without it, that had no notion of the state or state power. At a certain stage of economic development, which was necessarily bound up with the split of society into classes, the state became a necessity.