As You Make Your Bed, So You

Our American Past Always Speaks To Us With Two Voices: The Voice Of The Past, And The Voice Of The Present. We Are Always Asking Two Quite Different Questions. Historians Reading The Words Of John Winthrop Usually Ask, What Did They Mean To Him? Citizens Ask, What Do They Mean To Us? Historians Are Trained To Seek The Original Meaning; All Of Us Want To Know The Present Meaning.

Throught Human History, Illusions Of Knowledge, Not Ignorance, Have Proven To Be The Principal Obstacles To Discovery

Historians Will Not Fail To Note That A People Who Could Spend $300 Billion On Defense Refused To Spend A Tiny Fraction Of That Total To Keep Their Libraries Open In The Evening.

There Was A Time When The Reader Of An Unexciting Newspaper Would Remark, 'how Dull Is The World Today!' Nowadays He Says, 'what A Dull Newspaper!'

The World Of Crime Is A Last Refuge Of The Authentic, Uncorrupted, Spontaneous Event.