Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.

The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

Everybody changes, not just me.

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.