Russell Baker Quotes about War

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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Russell Baker

Peace, War, History

Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'

Russell Baker

Jobs, War, Thinking

The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.

Russell Baker

Peace, War, Hero

Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

Russell Baker

War, Thinking, Opposites

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

Russell Baker

War, People, Culture

Russell Baker Quotes about War

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