John

“Americans ignore history”
― Frances FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

“Whenever you hear a prominent American called a ‘Fascist,’” Hearst declared, “you can usually make up your mind that the man is simply a LOYAL CITIZEN WHO STANDS UP FOR AMERICANISM.”
― William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972

“There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.”
― Christopher Burns, The Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry

“There is not one of the peoples or provinces that constituted the Empire of the Habsburgs to whom gaining their independence has not brought the tortures which ancient poets and theologians had reserved for the damned.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm, 1948