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

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.

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

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

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.