History is full of surprises.

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

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).

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

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

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

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.