The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

Perhaps the most typically American place in America.

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls 'magnetic,' and does not value, because he sees no need for, originality or profundity, a fine culture or a wide knowledge.

When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

If you have enough room for your books, you don't have enough books.