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

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

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.

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

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

D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the 20th century. It was the day on which the decision was made as to who was going to rule in this world in the second half of the 20th century. Is it going to be Nazism, is it going to be communism, or are the democracies going to prevail?

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