History(163)

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."
Abraham Lincoln

"For it is a land of illusion, a place in the mind, a shimmering mirage of riches and mystery and death. These illusions have distorted its landscape and contorted its history."
Richard E. Lingenfelter

"In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield."
Douglas MacArthur

"Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war."
Douglas MacArthur

"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."
Douglas MacArthur

"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."
Douglas MacArthur

"An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome."
William Manchester

"Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself."
William Manchester

"It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking to Victoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons. It was superb."
William Manchester

"Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age."
H. L. Mencken