I don't believe Richard Nixon ... ever shall be totally exonerated. While it's true he's been pardoned for any Federal crimes he may have committed as President, he can't escape the judgement of history.
I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history.
Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.
We need not fear the judgement of history. Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?
No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored, after the initial judgements of contemporaries had been made.
We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.
Pity the powerful who are tested by history and fail.
