History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.