Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.
It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.
It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.
Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.
They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down. . .