History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
“I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.”
“I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.”