The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall submit. History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.

Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.

There is no country but the heart.

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.