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

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

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

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).

The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.

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.

Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.