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A People's History of the United States (1980)
“For us military men, it is impossible to forget.”
Quoted in "Bulletin" - by Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - Cold War - 1995
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“Military men are "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.”
Henry Kissinger
(1923–2023) United States Secretary of State
Kissinger has denied saying it.
The only evidence that Kissinger ever said this was a claim in the book, The Final Days, by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, in chapter 14 (p.194 in the 1995 paperback edition). Woodward & Bernstein claimed that one of Kissinger's political foes, Alexander Haig, had told someone unnamed, that he (Haig) had heard Kissinger say it. That's triple hearsay, made even weaker by the fact that one of the parties is anonymous. Kissinger has denied ever saying it, and it was never substantiated by Haig, nor by anyone of known identity who claimed to have heard it. As Kirkus Reviews noted about the whole book, "none of it is substantiated in any assessable way."
In fact, the quote is not even very plausible, on its face. Kissinger served with distinction in the U.S. Army during WWII, and was awarded the Bronze Star. He has always been very respectful of other servicemen and their sacrifices. For him to have said such a thing would have been wildly out of character. In fact, the awkward phrasing doesn't even sound like Kissinger, whose English prose is consistently measured and careful, despite his heavy accent, even when he speaks extemporaneously.
Misattributed
“I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember.”
Cameron Crowe
(1957) Academy Award-winning American writer and film director
“Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Source: On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
“We forget that IMPOSSIBLE is one of God's favorite words”
Max Lucado
(1955) American clergyman and writer
Source: Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions
“People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.”
Source: The Graveyard Book (2008), Ch. 7
Woodward and Bernstein. The Final Days, chapter 14 (1976)
Edmund Hillary
(1919–2008) New Zealand mountaineer
Sir Edmund Hillary : King Of The World
Context: The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.