History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

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'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.