Jeremy Johnson

“About these scientists,” Truman said, “we need men with great intellects, need their ideas. But we need to balance them with other kinds of people, too.”
― David McCullough, Truman

“I can’t take communism nor can you, but to cross this bridge I would hold hands with the Devil.”
― John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War

“There are plenty of things that a teenage boy doesn’t tell his mother. As we get older, there are more and more things we hold back, things too hard to say or too embarrassing to explain. We do this to protect our mothers as much as ourselves, because let’s face it—most of our thoughts are truly unthinkable.”
― Jason Rekulak, The Impossible Fortress