Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.