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

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

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Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.

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Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn't come here to fear. They hadn't come to die. They had come to win.

History is everything that has ever happened.