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

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.

Life without Ethan was something worse than a nightmare.It was real.So real that I refused to believe it.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Humility is pride in God.

All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.

Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

When you take a pause before delivering your punch line, you will be using silence as a creative entity in itself.

It's flattering to people who stop you and say that you've helped them and all. But, again, you know, you've got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

Slavery is more mental than anything

The reason I got a break in Hollywood when I moved here a few years ago is my good buddy, who I was on the beach with when he was a publicist, is now the chairman of HBO.