History is full of surprises.

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

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

The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.

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

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

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