American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.