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The President May Indeed In One Respect Resemble The Commander Of An Army In Peace, But In Another And More Essential Sense He Resembles The Commander Of A Ship At Sea. He Must Have A Helm To Grasp, A Course To Steer, A Port To Seek. He Must Sooner Or Later Be Convinced That A Perpetual Calm Is As Little To His Purpose As A Perpetual Hurricane, And That Without Headway The Ship Can Arrive Nowhere.

I Hate Photographs Abstractly, Because They Have Given Me More Ideas Perversely And Immovably Wrong, Than I Ever Should Get By Imagination.

Unity Is Vision; It Must Have Been Part Of The Process Of Learning To See.

The Historian Must Not Try To Know What Is Truth, If He Values His Honesty; For If He Cares For His Truths, He Is Certain To Falsify His Facts.

In The History Of The United States, There Is No Continuity At All. You Can Cut Through It Anywhere And Nothing On This Side Of The Cut Has Anything To Do With Anything On The Other Side.