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.

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

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

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

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.