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

Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.

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

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

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.

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.

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.