Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert.

American is the first democratic nation-state.

I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.

Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.