The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

History is full of surprises.

Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.

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

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

The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.