The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
Irving R. Kaufman

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
Harry S. Truman

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
Nikita Khrushchev

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
A. Whitney Brown

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
Peter Berger

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Jessamyn West

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
Lance Morrow

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
Irving R. Kaufman

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
William James

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
William Halsey

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
James Stockdale

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
Douglas MacArthur

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
G. Gordon Liddy

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana