Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.

To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.