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

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

The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to imposethe views of the revolutionists upon the British government and large sections of the colonial population at whatever cost to freedom of opinion or the sanctity of life and property.

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

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

Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.