Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.
People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.
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.
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.