To save the culture of your allies is a small thing. To cherish the culture of your enemy, to risk your life and the life of other men to save it, to give it all back to them as soon… — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share Image
“i don't believe i've ever been more certain than I am now that the development and understanding of man's workmanship is the fundamental need… — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share Image
“When I am billeted a German home even for one night I go out and search for the chickens and rabbits or pets and give them water and food if possible. Generally the family has pulled out too rapidly to care for such things. I suppose the stern and the cruel ones rule the world. If so, I shall be… — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share
“The skilled observer, not the machine, was the essence of conservation.” — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share Image
“Since the 1300s, this job had been performed by members of a small group of families, all living in the hills near the mine. Over the centuries humans grew larger, but the miners stayed the same size, until they eventually seemed dwarfed by the demands of the mine and their time underground (diet and inbreeding were more likely causes). Even… — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share
“It is amazing how the world can change, he thought, during the life span of a fruitcake.” — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share Image
“There are fights that you may lose without losing your honor; what makes you lose your honor is not to fight. -Jaques Jaujard” — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share
“War did not come like a hurricane, Rorimer realized, destroying everything in its path. It came like a tornado, touching down in patches, taking… — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share Image
“If the Nazis discovered they could push you, they would push you to your death. You had to be too much trouble to make… — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share Image
We can use laws to prosecute and make people think twice before going to do something like blowing up Buddhas and other things. — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share Image
“It matters little that you are afraid if you manage to hide it. You are then at the edge of courage. (one of Jaujard's… — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share Image
“He had no idea that the world was entering an economic depression, or that hard times bring recriminations and blame. Privately, Harry's parents worried not just about the economy, but about the rising tide of nationalism and anti- Semitism.” — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share
“Christmas was just another workday, just as it had been growing up in Alabama. In a good year back then, little Robert got a handkerchief and an orange. One year his father fashioned a little cart—although come to think of it that was in the spring, not at Christmastime—and the children took turns being pulled around the yard by the… — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share
