Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

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.

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.