Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

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.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

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

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

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

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