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

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

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

The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as President, lived for more than thirty years after the White House; Truman, who worked intensely and gaily, lived for twenty