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

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

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.