Peter W. Schramm

"America represented to my father, as Lincoln put it, "the last, best hope of earth." I would like to be able to say that this made my father a remarkable man for his time and his circumstances. For, i…"

"n America human beings could prove to the world that they have the capacity to govern themselves. I came to understand what Lincoln meant when he said that the ideas of the Declaration of Independence…"

"Communists sentenced my father's father to ten years hard labor for having a small American flag in his possession . At his "trial" he was asked why he had the flag. Was he a spy? He replied that it r…"

"he United States of America, is not only the most powerful and the most prosperous country on earth, but the most free and the most just. Then I do my best to tell them how and why this is so. And I t…"

"I'm in the ironic position of teaching native Americans how to think about their country. How odd it seems, and yet how perfectly American, that I, a Hungarian immigrant, should teach them."

"It is never easy to give honor where great honor is due."

"The United States started out in 1776 throwing off the accident and force that ruled by hereditary right in the old world, inviting mankind to respect the equal rights of human nature and the revoluti…"