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

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books.

Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That's it. Don't worry about making a living, don't worry about popularity or fame. Make what you do ... count more than what you own.

Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to be a real program to educate teachers who want to teach grade school children about history.

Home is really where education does begin.

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?