The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
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.
Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.
The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.
My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.