There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream."

Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.

Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.

History is the key to citizenship.

I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

Our dreams become our home where we dwell.

Every change is a menace to stability.

There are two things to do in Juneau, drink and get drunk.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

He [John Le Carré] really paid tribute to the people who are willing to risk their own lives to fight injustice - they are greater men and women than I.

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.