Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage.

Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.

Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?