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.

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

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.

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.