American history Quote by William Manchester

It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations…

— William Manchester

Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And…

— William Manchester

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

— William Manchester

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

— William Manchester

“The key to successful extramarital sex, therefore, was discretion. Mrs. Patrick Campbell, perhaps the most outspoken woman in polite society, said dryly: “It doesn’t…

— William Manchester

“It was Churchill who called John Foster Dulles “the only bull who brings his own china shop with him,” and who coined the progression,…

— William Manchester

I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start -…

— William Manchester

A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds.

— William Manchester

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

— William Manchester

“Byron wrote his shortest and most eloquent poem as a testament to a titled woman who had taken leave of her husband for a…

— William Manchester

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them.

— William Manchester

But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.

— William Manchester