Best Quotes by David Halberstam (Top 4)

  1. If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
  2. Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
  3. Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.
  4. This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.