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.

Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, and freely exercised.

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

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

History is everything that has ever happened.

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.