Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history or nothing happens.
This is the greatest society in all of human history the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.
The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
In a typical history book black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause as for instance the black man's right to his body or woman's right to her soul.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak not the right to spend.
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.