Quotes of: Theodore Keyword

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political ag...

Bennie Thompson

Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the ...

Michael Eric Dyson

Samantha: How do you share your life with somebody? Theodore: Well, we grew up together and I used to read all of her writing and through her Masters and PhD. She read every word I ever wrote. We were a big influence on each other. Samantha: In what ...

Her

It must never be forgotten that the general standard of learning and culture of a nation has a large part in determining its law and polity.

A Concise History of the Common Law

On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.

The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

Not married until 33, Abraham Lincoln said, "A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that cannot hurt me.

The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

Political cynicism, disengagement, democratic decadence — call it what you will — is too often an excuse for physical and intellectual laziness.

Defending Politics: Why Democracy Matters in the Twenty-First Century

When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse.

Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter

I have a strong opinion on steroids.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same time frightening. The best ones, to me, have a life of their own.

Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

Hopefully, you will glimpse something of your own life’s journey and with Elemental’s Power of Illuminated Love, possibly recognize and celebrate something you had not been able to recognize or celebrate before.

Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The author writes on Eisenhower's cold dismissal of his wartime lover.

Eisenhower in War and Peace

Eisenhower on Patton: "Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.

Eisenhower in War and Peace

America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.

Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828

The cornerstone of the Roman legionnaires' astonishing fighting spirit can be attributed to their training.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

The factor that made him so powerful was also his greatest liability.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Remembering the treatment that had been accorded the Knights and soldiers of St. Elmo, the Maltese inhabitants of Senglea took no prisoners. Hence there arose the expression (used in Malta to this day) 'St. Elmo's pay' for any action in which no merc...

The Great Siege

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.

The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of...

Brave Companions

There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.

The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation

The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.

The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866