Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert.
History is everything that has ever happened.
It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.
You don’t hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.
My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.
It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
American is the first democratic nation-state.
American corporations hate to give away money.
The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.
The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.
We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.
We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace...
Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?
Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.
In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: “In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I’m treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, ‘Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?’ No,‘” I answered, ’but I served in a company of heroes.
As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.