4 Quotes by William Raymond Manchester

Today's Europeans and Americans who reached the age of awareness after midcentury when the communications revolution lead to expectations of instantanaiy are exasperated by the slow toils of history. They assume that the thunderclap of cause will be swiftly followed by the lightening bolt of effect.

It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.

Biographer diagnoses reaction to restriction as a tell of true character. Some use even prison as a time of reflection and planning. Others, like Churchill, quickly chafe at missing interaction and opportunity.

There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt desperate; he felt challenged.