David Halberstam

“There was, I found, always more to learn.”

— David Halberstam

Always stay in with the outs.

— David Halberstam

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

— David Halberstam

“Most journalists are impatient to get their legwork done and to start the actual writing”

— David Halberstam

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.

— David Halberstam

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

— David Halberstam

“true wisdom ... is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience.”

— David Halberstam

“Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge.”

— David Halberstam

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

— David Halberstam

The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

— David Halberstam

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

— David Halberstam

These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.

— David Halberstam

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the…

— David Halberstam

“The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with.…

— David Halberstam

QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up…

— David Halberstam

One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional…

— David Halberstam

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was…

— David Halberstam

“It was like that afore you got here, it's like that now, and it's going to be like that when you and…

— David Halberstam

“Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.”

— David Halberstam

“Gen. Matthew Ridgeway "intended not to impose his will on his men, but to allow the men under him to find something…

— David Halberstam

“[David Riesman] had made a hobby of studying the American Civil War and he had always been disturbed by the passions which…

— David Halberstam

“somehow Acheson had been scarred during the McCarthy era; it was not so much that he had done anything wrong as the…

— David Halberstam

“he [Robert Lovett] knew that those whose names were always in print, who were always on the radio and television, were there…

— David Halberstam

“Theodore Sorensen wrote for [Robert Kennedy's 1968] announcement speech: “At stake is not simply the leadership of our party, and even our…

— David Halberstam

Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly…

— David Halberstam

“Because history became his (Keenan's) genuine passion, he tended to see the world in terms of deep historical forces that, in his…

— David Halberstam

“After Game Six of the Finals, as Paxson's shot went through the net, Michael Jordan raced to the basket to get the…

— David Halberstam

“DiMaggio's grace came to represent more than athletic skill in those years. To the men who wrote about the game, it was…

— David Halberstam

“an aristocracy come to power, convinced of its own disinterested quality, believing itself above both petty partisan interest and material greed. The…

— David Halberstam

“For there was no doubt in Bundy’s mind about his ability to handle... the world. The job was not just a happenstance…

— David Halberstam

“There is no small irony here: An administration which flaunted its intellectual superiority and its superior academic credentials made the most critical…

— David Halberstam

“The good reporters of that era, those who were well educated and who were enlightened themselves and worked for enlightened organizations, liked…

— David Halberstam

“We seemed about to enter an Olympian age in this country, brains and intellect harnessed to great force, the better to define…

— David Halberstam

“No son of mine is going to be a goddamn liberal, Kennedy interjected. Now, now Joe, Luce answered, of course he’s got…

— David Halberstam

“It was only natural that the intellectuals who questioned the necessity of American purpose did not rush from Cambridge and New Haven…

— David Halberstam

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

— David Halberstam

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities…

— David Halberstam

“If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy when not…

— David Halberstam

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television…

— David Halberstam

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact…

— David Halberstam