"Fascists were not conservative in any very meaningful sense... in a meaningful sense, were revolutionaries."

"Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it."

"The purpose of democratic statecraft is, or should be, to find the means of ordered liberty in a world condemned to e…"

"The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history."

"Let us by all means teach black history, African history, women’s history, Hispanic history, Asian history. But let u…"

"Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in a mordant protest written soon after the election, found the intellectual “in a situation…"

"With the slow and halting development, in late years, of what is styled "social history," male scholars, and occasion…"

"Americans have always been especially prone to regard all things as resulting from the free choice of a free will. Pr…"

"Democracy is clearly most appropriate for countries which enjoy an economic surplus and least appropriate for countri…"

"Here, for the last time together, appeared a triumvirate of old men, relics of a golden age, who still towered like g…"