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

Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

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

Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.

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.

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.