In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

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

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

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

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.

Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, and freely exercised.

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