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

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.

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.

The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don’t have to stay down.

I carry my burdens to the Lord. He lightens my shoulders.

We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.

In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

[Women] Inferior? Superior! I am sexist, of course.

I've never been the guy who's like, 'I take it home with me.'

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

Physics changes, but reality stays the same

Let me apologize for all the faces I've worn, none of them my own.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.