"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."

"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."

"History is a vision of God's creation on the move."

"The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's."

"Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically."

"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."

"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future."

"The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend."