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.

Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that. You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always a price.

For whatever you live is life.

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 nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain.

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.