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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 107bb32 | Whether ideas like this are inspiration or insomnia, I don't know," he writes in his journal. "I do things by sixth sense." Patton" | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| cdee256 | Patton, at heart, is a simple man who wears his emotions on his sleeve. This makes him extremely poor at the sort of political posturing at which rivals such as Montgomery excel. The | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| d047688 | Thus begins a sideshow to the war itself: the undercover battle led by William Donovan and the OSS to ensure that Eastern Europe fall into the hands of Soviet Russia. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| ec7d12a | The mere thought that the fighting will soon end fills Patton with dread. "Peace is going to be hell on me," he writes to his wife, Beatrice." | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 963fefd | Eisenhower's greatest strength and his greatest weakness: compromise. He wants to make everyone happy, and believes that "public opinion wins wars." Very often it seems Eisenhower would rather make the popular decision than the right one." | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 717cc79 | Christmas Eve is known throughout Germany, ends late for Adolf Hitler. It is four o'clock on Christmas morning as he slowly ascends the stairs from his War Room and readies himself for bed. Rising at noon, the man who seeks to remove any sort of religious tone from Christmas6 receives the news that Peiper and his division have escaped entrapment. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 62d6cd1 | newer, | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| c150bc0 | Yet the informality belies the truth: everyone, with the exception of Adolf Hitler, is terrified. "You felt it to the point of physical illness," one German officer will later write. "Nothing was authentic except fear." And" | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 2df8946 | Hitler specifically chooses Carlyle's book because it was the eminent Scottish historian who set forth the "Great Man" theory of history, which states that "the history of the world is but a biography of great men." Leonidas" | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 11e6d7f | Churchill is a creature of habit, rising each morning at 7:30 in his official residence at 10 Downing Street, just a half mile up the road from the Houses of Parliament. He works in bed until 11:00, whereupon he bathes, pours a weak Johnnie Walker Red scotch and water, and then works some more.3 He sips Pol Roger champagne with lunch at 1:00 p.m. Whenever possible, this is followed by a game of backgammon with Clementine at 3:30. He takes a.. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| fd59000 | I had all my staffs, except for VIII Corps, in for a conference. As usual on the verge of an attack, they were full of doubt. I seemed always to be the ray of sunshine, and by God, I always am. We can and will win, God helping." *" | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 8639b51 | Franklin Roosevelt's biggest love is reserved for the American people, whom he has led through twelve daunting years of deprivation and warfare. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 578770c | He oversaw American forces in the Korean War, | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 0fe697e | The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some, it takes an hour. For some, it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| ac13ebf | The Chinese Communist rebels want twenty million dollars to purchase arms for themselves to battle China's Japanese occupiers. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| b78ff1f | The real hero," Holmlund heard George S. Patton say just four months ago, "is the man who fights even though he's scared." | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| f87b300 | Faith and patience be damned! You have just got to make up Your mind whose side You are on. You must come to my assistance, so that I may dispatch the entire German Army as a birthday present to your Prince of Peace. "Sir, I have never been an unreasonable man; I am not going to ask You to do the impossible." | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 7317268 | Audacity, audacity, always audacity"--a motto that works well on the field of battle, but not so well in diplomatic situations." | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 4f00dd3 | Starvation, literal starvation, was doing its deadly work. So depleted and poisoned was the blood of many of Lee's men from insufficient and unsound food that a slight wound which would probably not have been reported at the beginning of the war would often cause blood poison, gangrene, and death," one Confederate general will later write." -- | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| ba8abfc | From the very first question, Cronkite attempts | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 9f0ffff | The tone of pessimism and defeat that marked Carter's first day in office came to define his entire presidency. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 6c90609 | calling the Soviet Union | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| db7b91d | made to the American people. He | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| eb5b25c | If you have not lost your self-control, and sensibly conceive what this might lead to, then, Mr. President, we and you ought not to pull on the ends of the rope in which you have tied the knot of war, because the more the two of us pull, the tighter the knot will be tied. And a moment may come when that knot will be tied so tight that even he who tied it will not have the strength to untie it, and then it will be necessary to cut that knot. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 40010ea | aware that it is the year in which he will remarry, father a new child, and vote Republican for the first time in his life. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 4c8e4e6 | I'm [having sex] for God. I'm not a negro tonight! | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 2eeb31d | throwback | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| f7b6fee | But I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not? | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| daf17ad | Reagan has come to believe that less governmental interference is the best path for America. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| e4874de | and shocking, I kept on until I arrived in the East Room, which I entered. There I was met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards. And there were a throng of people, some gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. 'Who is dead in the White House?' I | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 65640c6 | December | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 4a545c9 | Lincoln telegraphs his heartfelt reply: 'Let the thing be pressed. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| edc2323 | Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are, and probably more so. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 65c79f1 | The sand beneath the blast was instantly turned into a layer of green glass ten feet deep, and the shock waves could be felt one hundred miles away. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 461a7c8 | Ronald Reagan is directly responsible for initiating the fame of Marilyn Monroe. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 69fbc7f | The Russian general is used to such supplicant behavior. During the war, he ordered his troops to shoot any of their comrades who ran from the Germans, and any Russian village that was thought to have collaborated with the Nazis was burned to the ground. Zhukov is so feared that other Russian generals have been known to tremble in his presence. Patton does not tremble. "He was in full dress uniform much like comic opera and covered in medal.. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 9cbd729 | Digital lights in the center of the round door began | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| f9e919a | red, | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 148ba2d | Nobody | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| f6402fd | a touchy-feely vision of our society that places individual self-expression and rights over self-sacrifice and adult responsibility. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| ee695eb | George Shultz, who will one day serve as Reagan's secretary of state, will call this "the most important foreign policy decision Reagan has ever made." | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 9cccb69 | Your greatest fault," Eisenhower tells Patton, "is your audacity." | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| fc835cb | Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 0248ccd | George Patton and Winston Churchill are simpatico. | Bill O'Reilly |