Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
Category Archive: Quotes by Historians
Flattery was one of Kissinger’s principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.
It was not necessary and might even have been disadvantageous for a government to claim a direct personal commission and communion of the kind God had given some rulers in the Old Testament. A working government might need the support of the Church but not of God Himself in a voice from on high.
Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.
I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there were the rules; there were the prayer times. But it was as if we were existing in two separate universes. The Westerners were just allowed to get on with their way of life.
Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.
I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren’t open that early.