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

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.

The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as President, lived for more than thirty years after the White House; Truman, who worked intensely and gaily, lived for twenty

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.