Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.

Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.

The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States.

Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.

Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.