Richard N. Goodwin > Quotes

“History would not make itself. It had to be made and remade, and by us. It was the oldest lesson of civilization, one we had known and lived, and seemed somehow, for a time, to have forgotten.”
― Richard N. Goodwin, Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties

“for me to react to Pearl Harbor by translating experience into headlines and sentences. I had already begun to think of words as the world made manifest. I soon understood,”
― Richard N. Goodwin, Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties