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.

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.

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.

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

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.