“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or, as it were, fondle them—peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on their… — William R. Manchester Copy Share Image
“I have always held… that the skin of the bear must not be distributed until the bear has been killed.” — William R. Manchester Copy Share Image
“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or, as it were, fondle them—peer into them, let them fall open where… — William R. Manchester Copy Share Image
“Churchill, aware of Hitler’s use of astrologers, once summoned one himself. In a what-the-hell moment, he asked the surprised fortune-teller to tell him what… — William R. Manchester Copy Share Image
“People who go to Italy to look at ruins won’t have to go as far as Naples and Pompeii in the future.” — William R. Manchester Copy Share Image
“Social security was the most emotional issue that session. Republicans protested that if the administration bill were passed, children would no longer support their… — William R. Manchester Copy Share Image
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary; it fulfils the same function as pain in the human body, it calls attention to… — William R. Manchester Copy Share Image
