There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.

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?

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

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

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

To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young in the backwaters . . . eddies and twists and turns for canoeists . . . and fishing opportunities such as Lewis and Clark enjoyed . . . would be the finest possible tribute to the men of the Expedition, and a priceless gift for our children.