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He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.
[My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.
I trust to luck. I am planning to be a millionaire before I die but I don't have a plan as to how that will happen.
We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.
...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.
Why are some things remembered and others forgotten? That is the theme I want to pursue about the Second World War.
And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.
Any shlub can pick up a girl at a bar. Want a challenge? Try keeping a beautiful woman happy for ten years running.
Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.
Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties.
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.
Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.
Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?
Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.
Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
It's highly competitive to be here. People don't come to California to drop out anymore. It's a very striving place.
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.
Historians sometimes view presidents very differently from the way the public did at the time. Sometimes they don't.
...the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.
The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.
Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.
More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians than had died before in all the persecutions.
Full federal funding for presidential libraries should bring with it new rules of control over papers and artifacts.
From day one, my idea was always to use the gallery as this animated place to discover culture in a much bigger way.
Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.
I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus.
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time
So why, after prior successes, did Obama's race/class/gender attack finally sputter out like the French at Waterloo?
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
The name 'Amazon' was not originally Greek; linguists believe it derived from the ancient Iranian word for 'warrior.'
What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.
Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it.
The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.
The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard
Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.