Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.

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

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.

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).

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

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

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.