No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.

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.

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

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

Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King and, faced with the choice to acquiesce or resist, took less than three hours to make her decision, knowing it might be mortal.