Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence..

The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had s….

In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, ….

Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation i….

In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to….

Books are humanity in print..

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves..

War is the unfolding of miscalculations..

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law..

It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th century legislation, came dow….

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions." Because it can only ….

No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise….

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in..

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose..

Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy..

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy..

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip..

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war..

In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive,….

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of ….