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

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

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

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.

Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.

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 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.