The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what’s really happened.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

I have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison – they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I’ve been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don’t want to take that for granted.

Study men, not historians.

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, ’69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it’s worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started – an outright war started in 1962.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

It’s true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves – motifs of rebellion.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Research is creating new knowledge.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take – not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn’t threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

I can’t explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.