The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

We supported East River Science Park. We supported the United Nations tower. We're not an anti-development board. But we do want planning input. We don't look kindly on commercial, nor on buildings taller than the U.N. Secretariat.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.