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“He was everything. The soldier who loved poetry. The historian who loved to paint. The diplomat who thrived on indiscretion. The patriot with international vision. The orderly man given to electric spontaneities.
(on Winston Churchill)”
― A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century
(on Winston Churchill)”
― A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century
“This is what life does for you in the end; it arranges a fight you can't win.”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
“Henry Kissinger said in 1968:
Word should be gotten to Nixon that,
if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem,
the word will go out to the nations of the world,
that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy,
but to be America's friend is fatal.”
―
Word should be gotten to Nixon that,
if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem,
the word will go out to the nations of the world,
that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy,
but to be America's friend is fatal.”
―
“VI. LOOKING BACKWARD
How the planters, having lost the war for slavery, sought to begin again where they left off in 1860, mere substituting for the individual ownership of slaves, a new state serfdom of black folk.”
― Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
How the planters, having lost the war for slavery, sought to begin again where they left off in 1860, mere substituting for the individual ownership of slaves, a new state serfdom of black folk.”
― Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
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