No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then and it is misremembered now.

In known history nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

American history is longer larger more various more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that my friends is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture and the wild bats flapped out.

I haven't in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America ever violated an order - not one.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.