People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.