Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

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.