- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Optimism
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- Nov 07, 2020
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.
- His
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- Nov 07, 2020
Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.
- Nov 07, 2020
The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first book was the book that changed my life.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.
- Equal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.
- Nurses
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
- Marry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020