“We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the mat...” — Nathaniel Philbrick Quote

“We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.”

“History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.”

“I don't subscribe to the idea that the founders or anyone else were somehow better than us and that we have to live up to their example.”

“I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.”

“Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.”

“Right whales - so named because they were 'the right whale to kill' - grazed the waters off Nantucket as if they were seagoing cattle, straining the nutrient-rich surface of the ocean through the bushy plates of baleen in their perpetually grinning mouths.”

“I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.”

“A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.”

“David - the man after God's own heart - was a man of war and a mighty man of valour. When all Israel were on the run, David faced Goliath - alone... with God - and he but a stripling, and well scolded, too, by his brother for having come to see the battle.”

“This whole business of calling farmers all kinds of cheap names, such as Khalistanis, Urban Naxalites, was resorted to by BJP to weaken and damage the farmers' battle against the farm laws.”

“A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.”