Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

Once I discovered the endless fascination of doing the research and of doing the writing, I knew I had found what I wanted to do in my life. Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.