In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.

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.

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

Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert.

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

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

I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.