Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.

History is everything that has ever happened.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn't come here to fear. They hadn't come to die. They had come to win.

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.