Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will read more

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe read more

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.

The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.