Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.

Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

I believe I am an honorable man.