There Is Nothing New Under The Sun.

In The Closed Circle Of The War Cabinet, Pounded By Terrible Report After Terrible Report, There Had Been Uncertainty About Whether He Could Fend Off The Drift To Exploring A Deal With Hitler. The Determination Of The Larger Group Trumped The Tentativeness Of The Smaller, And Churchill Fulfilled His Role As Leader By Disentangling Himself From Defeatism--one Of His Singular Achievements At The End Of May 1940.

No Government Can Be Maintained Without The Principle Of Fear As Well As Duty.

I Believe History Will Come To View 9/11 As An Event On Par With November 22, 1963, The Date On Which John F. Kennedy Was Murdered, Cutting Short A Presidency That Was Growing Ever More Promising. Dreams Died That Day In Dallas; It Is Easy To Imagine The 1960s Turning Out Rather Differently Had President Kennedy Lived.

The Past Always Seems Somehow More Golden, More Serious, Than The Present. We Tend To Forget The Partisanship Of Yesteryear, Preferring To Re-imagine Our History As A Sure And Steady March Toward Greatness.

Without Education, We Are Weaker Economically. Without Economic Power, We Are Weaker In Terms Of National Security. No Great Military Power Has Ever Remained So Without Great Economic Power.