The first of all qualities of a general is courage.

It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency, for every tick of the clock subtracts from fewer and fewer...

You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about.

You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.

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

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.