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My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

History is everything that has ever happened.

At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.

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.

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

American corporations hate to give away money.

American is the first democratic nation-state.

Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.

In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.