All that existed was precious in Crazy Horse’s religion – whatever a man did or thought was good, was wakan, so long as he obeyed his own inner voice, for that too was wakan.
As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils I will believe it a good comfortable road untill I am conpelled to beleive differently.
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.
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.