When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

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

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

I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.