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

History is everything that has ever happened.

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?

In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

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

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.