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

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?

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

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

Friends never cheat on each other, or take advantage, or lie. Friends do not spy on one another, yet they have no secrets. Friends glory in each other's successes and are downcast by the failures. Friends minister to each other, nurse each other. Friends give to each other, worry about each other, stand always ready to help. Perfect friendship is rarely achieved, but at its height it is an ecstasy.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.