History Is Full Of Surprises.

I Trust That A Graduate Student Some Day Will Write A Doctoral Essay On The Influence Of The Munich Analogy On The Subsequent History Of The Twentieth Century. Perhaps In The End He Will Conclude That The Multitude Of Errors Committed In The Name Of Munich May Exceed The Original Error Of 1938.

Santayana's Aphorism Must Be Reversed: Too Often It Is Those Who Can Remember The Past Who Are Condemned To Repeat It.

Almost All Important Questions Are Important Precisely Because They Are Not Susceptible To Quantitative Answer.

Television Has Spread The Habit Of Instant Reaction And Stimulated The Hope Of Instant Results.

The Only President Who Clearly Died Of Overwork Was Polk, And That Was A Long Time Ago. Hoover, Who Worked Intensely And Humorlessly As President, Lived For More Than Thirty Years After The White House; Truman, Who Worked Intensely And Gaily, Lived For Twenty