Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.

What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go is right?

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to imposethe views of the revolutionists upon the British government and large sections of the colonial population at whatever cost to freedom of opinion or the sanctity of life and property.