Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will read more

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

Give the historians something to write about.

Give the historians something to write about.

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and read more

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.

All history, of course, is the history of wars.

All history, of course, is the history of wars.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.