Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

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

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

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

Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.