Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

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

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

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.