The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

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

To rush in upon an event before its significance has had time to separate from the surrounding circumstances may be enterprising, but is it useful? ... The recent prevalence of these hot histories on publishers' lists raises the question: Should - or perhaps can - history be written while it is still smoking?