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

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

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

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.

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert.