Livy

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.