Robert Boivin

“In his memoirs, Nixon explains why he decided not to contest the Illinois results. He was concerned that a challenge to the legitimacy of a presidential race would have hurt the nation’s standing in the world, he says. Perhaps more sincere was the other reason he gave: his concern that if he did contest the result “[c]harges of ‘sore loser’ would follow me through history and remove any possibility of a further political career.”
― Adam Cohen, American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley–His Battle for Chicago and the Nation

“The problem with police work, he once told Ray Jenkins, was that by its nature it tended to attract a certain percentage of sadistic people, who enjoyed the job because it legitimized their natural meanness. So, he added, the first thing any good police chief had to do was set the limits for his”
― David Halberstam, The Children

“Another affordable way to add a drop of loveliness to the world was not to change it but to change how one saw it.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“The ‘eternal Court of History’, he declared, ‘will judge us ... as Germans who wanted the best for their people and their fatherland.’73”
― Richard J. Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich