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

The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

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).

Total separation of church and state was considered the best safeguard for the health of each. As [Andrew] Jackson explained, in refusing to name a fast day, he feared to 'disturb the security which religion now enjoys in this country, in its complete separation from the political concerns of the General Government.'

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

Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.

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