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

If the attitude of the teacher toward the material is positive, enthusiastic, committed and excited, the students get that. If the teacher is bored, students get that and they get bored, quickly, instinctively.

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons, including the absence of photographs, we tend to see the men and women of the Revolution as not quite real. And we have far too little sense of what they suffered.

I think it's important to remember that these men are not perfect. If they were marble gods, what they did wouldn't be so admirable. The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene