Quotes: Post

The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe’s great achievements – liberty, peace and prosperity – as a given.

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 – in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam – that is probably the most important case.

The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there’s a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

I don’t think Post often came to Princeton during the ’30s. I can’t remember ever seeing him in Princeton.

In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq.

This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.