The Passion For Tidiness Is The Historian's

Science And Technology Revolutionize Our Lives, But Memory, Tradition And Myth Frame Our Response. Expelled From Individual Consciousness By The Rush Of Change, History Finds Its Revenge By Stamping The Collective Unconscious With Habits, Values, Expectations, Dreams. The Dialectic Between Past And Future Will Continue To Form Our Lives.

Santayana's Aphorism Must Be Reversed: Too Often It Is Those Who Can Remember The Past Who Are Condemned To Repeat It.

Self-righteousness In Retrospect Is Easy--also Cheap.

The First Rule Of Democracy Is To Distrust All Leaders Who Begin To Believe Their Own Publicity.

The Only President Who Clearly Died Of Overwork Was Polk, And That Was A Long Time Ago. Hoover, Who Worked Intensely And Humorlessly As President, Lived For More Than Thirty Years After The White House; Truman, Who Worked Intensely And Gaily, Lived For Twenty