The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

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.

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

Any time not spent on love is wasted.

Stop looking for a way out of your obstacle and start searching for a way to courageously go through it.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.

I do the best I can with any instrument I get attracted to. But they're just tools in order for you to express yourself and that's really the upshot of it.

I do think that the more takes you have the more opportunity to experiment [but] at a certain point, there are diminishing returns. There's only so much variety you offer.

The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.