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

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

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

The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.

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.

History is full of surprises.

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