To yearn for a single, and usually simple, explanation of the chaotic materials of the past, to search for a single thread in that most tangled of al….

We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence ….

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impos….

The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion - un….

The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted..

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them..

In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience..

Our best people don't go into politics..

Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of th….

It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices changed ….

It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was justified ….

The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought..

And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping the….

Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silence….

What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness..

The decision for complete religious freedom and for separation of church and state in the eyes of the rest of the world was perhaps the most importan….

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it - a….

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent..

Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanis….

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality..

History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!.