All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.

The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as President, lived for more than thirty years after the White House; Truman, who worked intensely and gaily, lived for twenty

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

People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.

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

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.