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

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

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

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

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

Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.

Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!