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

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

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

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 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.

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.