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.

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

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

Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

History is full of surprises.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.