Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

The sadness will last forever.

One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

We usually get what we anticipate.

Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.

It seems like movies that have heart to them always do well, and they find their audience.

When I started Doctor Who Steven Moffat said, "That's it for the rest of your life." I'll be Doctor to a whole generation when they're 50.

Wake up early; it is great to live the mornings.

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.