Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.

Urban people, of course, are terribly scared nowadays. They may yearn for society, but it is risky to go around talking to strangers, for a lot of reasons, one…

The odd thing is not that we are in the business of overthrowing other people's governments, but that we can still be surprised when somebody reminds us of it.…

Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated…

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.

A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.