America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.

As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.

Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp.

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.

The supply of government exceeds demand.