LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem – a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.
REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn’t want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.
Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.
Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that ’they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn’t come here to fear. They hadn’t come to die. They had come to win.
In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In the 21st century, we must devote ourselves to restoring it.
Washington’s character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.
My first book was the book that changed my life.
Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert.
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.
History is everything that has ever happened.
It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.
You don’t hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.
My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.
It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
American is the first democratic nation-state.