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History is everything that has ever happened.
American is the first democratic nation-state.
American corporations hate to give away money.
My first book was the book that changed my life.
The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.
The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.
Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.
It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.
We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.
Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.
Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.
Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.
You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.
Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.
Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.
I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.
I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?
We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.
As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.
It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one.
Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.
Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.
Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?