The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man read more

A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

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 certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

The men who make history have not time to write it.

The men who make history have not time to write it.

90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.

90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.