For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.