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

in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

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 open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.