Measure What Is Important, Don't Make Important

I Don't Object To Its Being Called "mcnamara's War." I Think It Is A Very Important War And I Am Pleased To Be Identified With It And Do Whatever I Can To Win It.

Neither Conscience Nor Sanity Itself Suggests That The United States Is, Should Or Could Be The Global Gendarme.

At My Age, 85, I'm At Age Where I Can Look Back And Derive Some Conclusions About My Actions. My Rule Has Been Try To Learn, Try To Understand What Happened. Develop The Lessons And Pass Them On.

We See What We Want To Believe.

All The Evidence Of History Suggests That Man Is Indeed A Rational Animal, But With A Near Infinite Capacity For Folly. . . . He Draws Blueprints For Utopia, But Never Quite Gets It Built. In The End He Plugs Away Obstinately With The Only Building Material Really Ever At Hand--his Own Part Comic, Part Tragic, Part Cussed, But Part Glorious Nature.