Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.

For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.

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

Completeness is rare in history.

I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have.

No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard