We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.

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

When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries.

I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.

And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.

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

The first of all qualities of a general is courage.