The most interesting people are never perfect.

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem about enlisting their interest in history. None. The problem is the teachers so often have no history in their background.

I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some of the masks that they've been wearing. There's a candor.

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.