William Manchester Quotes

• It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking to Victoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons.

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• He resolved to lead Britain and her fading empire in one last great struggle…to arm the nation, not only with weapons but also with the mace of honor, creating in every English breast a soul beneath the ribs of death.

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• Johnson approached a strongly fortified position by outflanking it, or burrowing under it, or surprising the defenders from the rear, or raining down obstacles upon them from the sky, or starving them into submission… Rarely, and then only reluctantly, would he proceed directly from A to B, to him the shortest distance between two points was a tunnel.

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• His critics called him a wheeler-dealer. They overlooked the subtlety of Johnsonian strategy, his use of wheels within wheels.

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• A leader cut from whipcord.

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• I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

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• He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

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• Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. [And] if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.

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  Tags in Men, Abstraction, Glory

• I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight’s darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.

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  Tags in Vaguely, Wondered, Pull, Darkness

• He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

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• Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor’s officers’ mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

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  Tags in Except, Interval, Guests, Pearl

• An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

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• As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.

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• Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

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William Manchester (14)

Birth:	1st April, 1922
Death:	1st June, 2004
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Biographer, Historian

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