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

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

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

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

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.

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.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.