Robert McNamara Quotes

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
Robert McNamara

Writing, Advantage, Judgment

We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
Robert McNamara

Women, Men, Death

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
Robert McNamara

Freedom, Him, After

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
Robert McNamara

Conscience, United, Nor

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.
Robert McNamara

Felt, Achieve, Necessary

One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.
Robert McNamara

Fashion, Cannot, Action

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: June 9, 1916

Died: July 6, 2009

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