Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.

It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.

If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.

Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually.

To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress.

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.