Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.