- Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. – Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, “father” of America’s nuclear navy (1900-1986)
- What experience and history teach is this: that people and governments have never learned anything from history. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (1770-1831)
- More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing nothing, than by believing too much. – P.T. Barnum, American showman (1810-1891)
- The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached. – Woodrow Wilson, American president (1856-1924)
- The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don’t see coming. – Mike Mansfield, American statesman (1903-2001)
TIME Magazine Wrong In Not Naming Churchill
Dec 27, 1999
The choice of Einstein as TIME’s Person of the Century, whilst understandable, is an error of judgement to many students of twentieth century history.
The person who most clearly affected the way the Western world lives today was Winston Churchill.
The Weekly Standard, in its latest edition, presents a compelling case for Churchill, arguing against the choice of Roosevelt, Hitler, Stalin, Lenin or Mao.
A new book by John Lukas, “Five Days In London – May 1940”, available here from Amazon Books, argues that in the weeks after becoming Prime Minister Churchill prevailed upon the War Cabinet to continue the fight against Hitler and, in so doing, earned his place as the greatest democratic statesman of the century.
TIME Magazine Names Einstein Man Of The Century
Dec 26, 1999
TIME Magazine has named Albert Einstein as its Man Of The Century, according to an exclusive story in the Drudge Report.
The magazine has named Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States between 1933 and 1945 as runner-up with Mahatma Gandhi.
According to Drudge, TIME says:
In a century that will be remembered foremost for its science and technology — in particular for our ability to understand and then harness the forces of the atom and universe — one person clearly stands out as both the greatest mind and paramount icon of our age: the kindly, absent-minded professor whose wild halo of hair, piercing eyes, engaging humanity and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol and his name a synonym for genius, Albert Einstein.