Never Answer The Question That Is Asked

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.

To This Day We Seem To Act In The World As Though We Know What's Right For Everybody.

The Greatest Contribution Vietnam Is Making-right Or Wrong Is Beside The Point-is That It Is Developing An Ability In The United States To Fight A Limited War, To Go To War Without The Necessity Of Arousing The Public Ire.

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.