Hunter Flamm > Hunter's Quotes

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."

[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]”
― David McCullough

“History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. ”
― David McCullough

“You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.”
― David McCullough

“But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.”
― Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power