History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!

In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it - as with these - life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.