Famous Quotes About history

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

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

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.