For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
From Gore Vidal
To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
I am only at home in the present.
I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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