Might does not make right, it only makes history.

Might does not make right, it only makes history.

Happy is the nation without a history.

Happy is the nation without a history.

How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?

How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always read more

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

And read their history in a nation's eyes.

And read their history in a nation's eyes.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men read more

There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: read more

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.".