The Passion For Tidiness Is The Historian's

Man Generally Is Entangled In Insoluble Problems; History Is Consequently A Tragedy In Which We Are All Involved, Whose Keynote Is Anxiety And Frustration, Not Progress And Fulfilment.

History, In The End, Becomes A Form Of Irony.

Economists Are About As Useful As Astrologers In Predicting The Future (and, Like Astrologers, They Never Let Failure On One Occasion Diminish Certitude On The Next).

Few Secret Undertakings Ever Did Any Nation Any Good.

Total Separation Of Church And State Was Considered The Best Safeguard For The Health Of Each. As [andrew] Jackson Explained, In Refusing To Name A Fast Day, He Feared To 'disturb The Security Which Religion Now Enjoys In This Country, In Its Complete Separation From The Political Concerns Of The General Government.'