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

A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

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.

It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.