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

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.

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.

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

History is everything that has ever happened.

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

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