“I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better. So when I go to sleep ...”

“The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed.”

“'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable and for me that always sort of spoils a book.”

“Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.”

“How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?”

“Once a decision was made I did not worry about it afterward.”

“We have to examine the extent to which we export poverty to other societies. When we decide that we will import products from China that are produced by people earning less than a dollar an hour, a...”

“War made the state, and the state made war”

“A single strand appeared to unite these conflicts, and that was the advancement of a small coterie's concept of American interests in the guise of the fight against terrorism... I recognized that i...”

“Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.”

“In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an elec...”

“The missile crisis "was the most dangerous moment in human history," Arthur Schlesinger commented in October 2002 at a conference in Havana on the fortieth anniversary of the crisis, attended by a ...”