Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.

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

One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand these eighteenth-century people, that it was that grounding in Greek and Latin that gave them their sense of the classic virtues: the classic ideals of honor, virtue, the good society, and their historic examples of what they could try to live up to.

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

History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.

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?

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