The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
Lance Morrow

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Jessamyn West

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
Peter Berger

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
A. Whitney Brown

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
Nikita Khrushchev

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
Harry S. Truman

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
Irving R. Kaufman