I've tried to open the door. My knock isn't that big a sound. But it is like the knock in "The Wizard of Oz." It set up this echo ...through the halls until it was heard by everyone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing changes my twenty-six years in the military. I continue to love it and everything it stands for and everything I was able ...to accomplish in it. To put up a wall against the military because of one regulation would be doing the same thing that the regulation does in terms of negating people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A new kind of award has been added--the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all,... or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The War of the Roses in England and the Civil War in America were both intestinal conflicts arising out of similar ideas. In the f...irst the clash was between feudalism and the new economic order; in the second, between an agricultural society and a new industrial one. Both led to similar ends; the first to the founding of the English nation, and the second to the founding of the American. Both were strangely interlinked; for it was men of the old military and not of the new economic mind--men, such as Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh--who founded the English colonies in America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The a...cademy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the... Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity..., the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmaneuvered by the U.S. military? Y...et, given time, I think the press will bounce back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »