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

What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go is right?

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.

History is full of surprises.

Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.

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

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.