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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made QUOTES

The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made QUOTES

1 " floor of Bethesda Naval Hospital, sick with duodenal "

― Walter Isaacson , The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made

2 " At the front in Germany near the end of the war, McCloy discovered that the ninth-century city of Rothenburg was about to be shelled. McCloy’s mother had once visited the town and brought back etchings; he knew it was an ancient center of German culture. “This is one of Europe’s last great walled cities,” he told the American commander. Perhaps, McCloy suggested, it could be induced to surrender peacefully. It was, and after the war the city voted him an honorary burgher. "

― Walter Isaacson , The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made

3 " Unless "

― Walter Isaacson , The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made

4 " A democracy,” Kennan wrote in a note to himself, “is severely restricted in its use of armed forces as a weapon of peacetime foreign policy. "

― Walter Isaacson , The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made