As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

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

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.

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

My first book was the book that changed my life.

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

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.