David Greenberg famous quotes

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.
-- David Greenberg

#President #Liberty #Wartime

It's actually quite common for presidents to believe that future generations will render a verdict on their presidencies that is more lasting or definitive than the judgments of their contemporaries. The reason is that although history is certainly "an argument without end" - we're still debating many age-old questions - time does help settle others.
-- David Greenberg

#Believe #Age #President

I find it hard to imagine that future historians will see the Iraq War as a big plus in Bush's ledger, but we have to admit that we simply don't know for sure.
-- David Greenberg

#War #Iraq #Imagine

I'm hard pressed to give an example on the spot of a president who explicitly spoke of the vindication of history, but I'm confident that there are many such examples.
-- David Greenberg

#Giving #President #Example

People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even as you lose respect for the individual.
-- David Greenberg

#People #Office #Individual

One thing that does seem to me to be fairly consistent is that presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it. So most people agree that one of the worst stains on the reputation of FDR, who is widely considered a great president, is the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Likewise, Lincoln is judged harshly for the suspension of habeas corpus.
-- David Greenberg

#War #People #President

We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency.
-- David Greenberg

#Impact #Long #Judging

An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.
-- David Greenberg

#Children #Taken #Naughty

Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.
-- David Greenberg

#Ideas #Preference #Rooted

We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

The Presidents Woodruff and Smith both said they were willing for such a ceremony to occur, if done in Mexico, and Pres. Woodruff promised the Lord's blessing to follow such an act.

Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

It must be all the same to the citizens ("ressortissants", Fr.) of a country that their governing (those in power) speak such language or such other ("telle langue ou telle autre", Fr.); likewise that it must be all the same to them that these adhere to such or such religion, so long as a full (or complete) liberty is equally garantee for everyone.

In wartime we provide truth with a bodyguard of lies because it is so precious.

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.

All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.