All wars are popular for the first 30 days.
Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.
Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.
The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.