Life Quotes

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

William Westmoreland

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

William Westmoreland

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.

William Westmoreland

We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.

William Westmoreland

The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.

William Westmoreland

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

William Westmoreland

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.

William Westmoreland

By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

William Westmoreland

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

William Westmoreland

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

William Whewell

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

William Whewell

The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case.

William Whewell

I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.

William Whipple

Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows.

William Whitehead

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

William Whitelaw

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

William Wiley

Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.

William Wilberforce

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

William Wilberforce

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

William Wirt

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

William Wordsworth