 Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones. |
| The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. |
| Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist. |
| I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education. |
| Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. |
| The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest. |
| The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. |
| There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. |
| 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. |
| Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there. |
| American corporations hate to give away money. |
| 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. |
| Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen. |
| My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier. |
| Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life. |
| 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. |
| Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands. |
| The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed. |
| World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. |
| Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants. |
