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).

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

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.

Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.