Only those who [do] nothing [make] no mistakes.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

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

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.

There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do feel in my heart of hearts that if history isn't well written, it isn't going to be read, and if it isn't read it's going to die.

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.