The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.

Men make history and not the other way around.

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar. . . . .He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.