No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

The horror of the twentieth century was the size of each new event and the paucity of its reverberation

'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. 'In the twentieth century, we beat the Russians. In the twenty-first, if we have to, we'll beat the Americans!'

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.