We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.