"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."

"They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them."

"In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield."

"Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war."

"An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome."

"History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man."

"The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds."

"One German makes a philosopher, two a public meeting, three a war."

"The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out."

"Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself."