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

There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.

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.

I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons, including the absence of photographs, we tend to see the men and women of the Revolution as not quite real. And we have far too little sense of what they suffered.

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

The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it, the way you have a talent for public speaking or music or whatever - it shouldn't be allowed to lie dormant. It should be brought alive.

Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.