Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

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.

Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

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.

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young in the backwaters . . . eddies and twists and turns for canoeists . . . and fishing opportunities such as Lewis and Clark enjoyed . . . would be the finest possible tribute to the men of the Expedition, and a priceless gift for our children.