Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

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.

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

Friends never cheat on each other, or take advantage, or lie. Friends do not spy on one another, yet they have no secrets. Friends glory in each other's successes and are downcast by the failures. Friends minister to each other, nurse each other. Friends give to each other, worry about each other, stand always ready to help. Perfect friendship is rarely achieved, but at its height it is an ecstasy.

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.