Quotes of: Napoleon Keyword

The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.

Howard Fineman

They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.'

Howard K. Smith

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it.

Martha Gellhorn

I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation.

Mark Helprin

Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos became embroiled, the effects were essentially confined ...

Martin Jacques

Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.

Michael Ledeen

Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments.

Peter Arnett

The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Ch...

P. J. O'Rourke

I'm going to leave WWII. I considered and rejected doing something on the Pacific. Fourteen years is enough. I'd like to take on a different challenge and probably a different era. But it will be another war. It's what I do.

Rick Atkinson

The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about.

Rich Lowry

My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that...

Ron Reagan

One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans.

Sebastian Junger

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era

It's only people, as far as we know, who look up at the stars and wonder what they are.

Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It

It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child—at least till you try to get him to do something.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

Tuhan, di dunia dan akhirat aku ingin mengabdi pada api Islam abadi pimpin aku! berkati perjuanganku! Tuhan, aku ingin maju menerjang rintangan engkar di dadaku biar menggema Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!

Cermin Penghidupan

Enron would keep its unearned windfall, generated solely because David Duncan didn't know what he was doing.

Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story

...and I shut off my anxious heart and my nervous head as dusk descended into another night, another meaningless merging, another attempt to find myself as I gave myself away.

A Different Blue

Der Präventionsstaat muss [...] dem Bürger immer mehr Freiheiten nehmen, um ihm dafür Sicherheit zu geben.

Der Terrorist als Gesetzgeber. Wie man mit Angst Politik macht

Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

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Doidas e Santas