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

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

People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

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

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

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.