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

Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible.

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

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

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made

Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.

Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.