Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism.

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.

The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

Speaking as a writer, it would be difficult to find an event in American history more dramatic and riveting than the Civil War.