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.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

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

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to imposethe views of the revolutionists upon the British government and large sections of the colonial population at whatever cost to freedom of opinion or the sanctity of life and property.

Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.