Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

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

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).

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

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