There are innumerable writing problems in an extended work. One book took a little more than six years. You, the writer, change in six years. The life around you changes. Your family changes. They grow up. They move away. The world is changing. You're also learning more about the subject. By the time you're writing the last chapters of the book, you know much more than you did when you started at the beginning.

I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some of the masks that they've been wearing. There's a candor.

There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.

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

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

In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation.

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