History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

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

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

In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.

Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!

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.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.