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I will not take by sacrifice what I can achieve by strategy.
— William Manchester
As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.
— William Manchester
I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.
— William Manchester
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
— 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
To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist.
— William Manchester
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The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.
— William Manchester
People who go to Italy to look at ruins won't have to go as far as Naples and Pompeii in the future.
— 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
He was a great thundering paradox of a man.
— William Manchester
The sum of a million facts is not the truth.
— William Manchester
An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
— William Manchester
I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it.
— William Manchester
In 1988, William Manchester began writing The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm, the third and final volume of his biography of Winston Churchill.
— William Manchester
The idea that you can vote yourself into prosperity is one of the most ludicrous that was ever entertained.
— William Manchester
They were following their prime minister, matching their government's mood.
— William Manchester
Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.
— William Manchester
A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys.
— 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
I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.
— William Manchester
It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.
— William Manchester
When I call him a son of a bitch I am not using profanity, but am referring to the circumstances of his birth.
— William Manchester
patriotism, vitiated by the growing global diaspora, has become parochial, a tarnished, disappearing virtue.
— William Manchester
There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt desperate; he felt challenged.
— William Manchester
Please understand that we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
— William Manchester
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His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them.
— William Manchester
Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
— William Manchester
The truth is so precious," Churchill told Stalin, "that she should always be protected by a bodyguard of lies.
— William Manchester
