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.

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

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.

The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

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

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