Textbooks are written in an oracular monotone, so that they claim to be true and important.

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

Conclusions are not always pleasant.

There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

Many Americans have never owned a book, and I'm not talking about because of the recent digital revolution. I'm talking about before there even was a digital revolution.

We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.

I'm looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it's coming.

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.

Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

Every time before I throw my first pitch, I am praying. And not only that, in the bullpen I am praying.

Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.

Being hungover is like winning the lottery, only they pay you in regret.

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.