The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

History is full of surprises.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

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

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

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.