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The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
To people who remember JFK’s assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father’s coffin.
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy’s murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.