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Quotes by Historian
"To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin."
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"Money as the sole ambition has no value."
31
"The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."
31
"There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying."
30
"Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike."
30
"The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution."
30
"When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese."
30
"History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated."
30
"There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash."
30
"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
30
"Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war."
30
"To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious."
30
"Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction."
30
"An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."
30
"A huge change has taken place in my lifetime."
30
"As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind."
30
"The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people."
30
"At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago."
30
"I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam."
30
"There is nothing more attractive than confidence, once she sees her own beauty, everyone else will."
30
"No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does."
30
"The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition."
30
"House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly apt and peculiarly his own."
30
"We are a conquering race. We must obey our blood and occupy new markets and if necessary new lands."
30
"The truth hurts when you live a life of lies."
30
"When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war."
30
"White is not always light and black is not always dark."
30
"There is in Albert Camus' literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear."
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