The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

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.

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

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

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.

At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.