People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.