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William Manchester has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
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An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
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He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the…
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Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except,…
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Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing…
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They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have…
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I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.
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His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to…
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He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the…
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His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them.
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It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective…
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It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the…
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Those officers and men who were immediately under my observation, evinced the greatest gallantry, and I have no doubt that all others…
— Oliver Hazard Perry
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God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts:…
— Thomas Jefferson
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To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed…
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Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert…
— Jonathan Swift
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They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have…
— William Manchester
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Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war…
— John Amery
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The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much…
— Samuel Johnson
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For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the…
— Robert Hooke
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The colors that float from the masthead should be the credentials of our seamen. There is no safety to us, and the…
— Henry Clay
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When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests…
— Diogenes
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There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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