Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

History is everything that has ever happened.

Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.

Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.

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

To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young in the backwaters . . . eddies and twists and turns for canoeists . . . and fishing opportunities such as Lewis and Clark enjoyed . . . would be the finest possible tribute to the men of the Expedition, and a priceless gift for our children.