History Is, Indeed, An Argument

People Who Claw Their Way To The Top Are Not Likely To Find Very Much Wrong With The System That Enabled Them To Rise.

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

If We Are To Survive, We Must Have Ideas, Vision, And Courage. These Things Are Rarely Produced By Committees. Everything That Matters In Our Intellectual And Moral Life Begins With An Individual Confronting His Own Mind And Conscience In A Room By Himself.

Troubles Impending Always Seem Worse Than Troubles Surmounted, But This Does Not Prove That They Really Are.

Clarity In Language Depends On Clarity In Thought.