The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

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

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

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

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

American corporations hate to give away money.

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.