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

My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.

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

When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

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.

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.