That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.

Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes.

"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.