Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
“We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war.”
Remarks Against Going to War with Iraq http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mheaney/Partisan_Dynamics_of_Contention.pdf (2 October 2002).
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“We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.”
On the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, quoted in Minute by Minute (1985)
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2000s, 2002, State of the Union address (January 2002)
Broadcast (18 March 1947), quoted in The Times (19 March 1947), p. 4
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1960, Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American
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Context: These symposia may have been, as much as anything, occasions to release the pent-up anxieties of a society always at war—"the father of all, the king of all," "always existing by nature," as the Greek philosophers expressed it.