American is the first democratic nation-state.

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

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.

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

My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.

In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.