The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can dis...
The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few vic...
No bird soars in a calm. WILBUR WRIGHT
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the...
Government is nothing more than the combined force of society or the united power of the multitude for the peace, order, safety, good, and happiness of the people... There is no king or queen bee dist...
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to
How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?
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.
Rather than literally burning the midnight oil, which he judged to be unhealthy, John Adams advised his son to make the most of college by developing an inquisitive outlook that would prompt him to ge...
Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
Measurements "are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors.
But it isn’t true, Orville responded emphatically, to say we had no special advantages . . . the greatest thing in our favor was growing up in a family where there was always much encouragement to int...
Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.
All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden to others. -Bishop Milton Wright
One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand these eighteenth century people, that it was that grounding in Greek and Latin that gave th...
In an exhibition wherein paintings of nudes were commonplace, that of Madame Gautreau in her black evening dress was considered scandalously erotic. -from The Greater Journey
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.", NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)
You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture.You've got to become them.(Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)
There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans
It is in Paris that the beating of Europe’s heart is felt. Paris is the city of cities. - Victor Hugo