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

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

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

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.

History is everything that has ever happened.

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

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?