July 13, 2025

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

[Notice kept on his desk while working on his biography of Lord Mountbatten] Remember.

To the extent that a democratic society gives its citizens the chance to speak in their own voices and listens to what they have to say, it gives itself the chance not only of discovering its multiple glories and triumphs but also of surviving its multiple follies and crimes.