The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent.

Jefferson was the rare student who came to college already knowing that there could be joy in studying.

Jefferson attributes to a college professor and mentor his lifelong habit of questioning conventional wisdom.

The author characterizes Hamilton's tone in the Federalist papers by saying that he never spoke of problems but of being at the last stage in the crisis.

For leaders, wars are filled with guesses.

Alexander Hamilton reflected as early as the middle of the Revolutionary War that rallying at the last minute was part of the national character of his countrymen.

Established churches not infrequently formed an alliance with the aristocracy, joining arm in arm against change.

Were people to mingle only with those of like mind, every man would be an insulate being." Thomas Jefferson

Pointing out the possible, and expensive, entanglements that could come with widespread commercial enterprise, the author calculates the Great Britain was at war half the time between 1689 and 1783.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

Sometimes we choose the road we follow.And sometimes the road chooses us.

Our lives are destined by the determination of our own principles.

A reaper in a bubble bath? What an affront to the dignity of death.

When you're around the aura of humanity in those cities, you can't feel anything.

I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.

I'll let life take me where it will.

Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.

As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, 'Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'

This is the normal way with birthdays, see? Amazingly enough, they arrive on the same day, every year.