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

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

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

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

History is full of surprises.

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.

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.