The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

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.

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.