History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.