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

American is the first democratic nation-state.

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

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

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

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

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.