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

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

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

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

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.

In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.