Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to imposethe views of the revolutionists upon the British government and large sections of the colonial population at whatever cost to freedom of opinion or the sanctity of life and property.