Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what th….

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making..

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made..

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with..

I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready..

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's..

Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust..

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me ….

Remember sometimes just the rush of having a crush is a temptation, even if it is inappropriate, but beware of playing with fire, you will get burned..

I deeply regret having let stand and later confirming the assumption that I went to Vietnam. For this and any other distortions about my personal lif….

Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians..

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness..

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots.

Grand visions, even those as prescient as Washington's, must nevertheless negotiate the damnable particularities that history in the short run tosses….

Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable..

...the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confessio….

I believe I am an honorable man..