Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

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

I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.

History is full of surprises.