“The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am Presid...” — Harry S Truman Quote

“The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.”

“A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.”

“It sure is hell to be president.”

“Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.”

“Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.”

“Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.”

“'War and Peace' holds a strange place in literary history, participating in the crowning of realism as a substantial and serious literary mode in America, even as the novel also contributed to the argument that historical fiction could be by nature dangerous, illegitimate, and inaccurate.”

“I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to educate myself: it is an exploration into the unknown - 'a journey without maps,' to borrow Graham Greene's phrase.”

“I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.”

“We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.”

“Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.”

“Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.”