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.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

American corporations hate to give away money.

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.

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?

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.