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To Me History Ought To Be A Source Of Pleasure. It Isn't Just Part Of Our Civic Responsibility. To Me It's An Enlargement Of The Experience Of Being Alive, Just The Way Literature Or Art Or Music Is.

We Are Raising A Generation Of Young Americans Who Are, To A Very Large Degree, Historically Illiterate. It's Not Their Faults. There's No Problem About Enlisting Their Interest In History. None. The Problem Is The Teachers So Often Have No History In Their Background.

Yes, This Is A Dangerous Time. Yes, This Is A Time Full Of Shadows And Fear. But We Have Been Through Worse Before And We Have Faced More Difficult Days Before. We Have Shown Courage And Determination, And Skillful And Inventive And Courageous And Committed Responses To Crisis Before.

A Leader Must Look And Act The Part.

You Can't Learn To Play The Piano Without Playing The Piano, You Can't Learn To Write Without Writing, And, In Many Ways, You Can't Learn To Think Without Thinking. Writing Is Thinking. To Write Well Is To Think Clearly. That's Why It's So Hard.