David Hackworth famous quotes

03-23-2025

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.
-- David Hackworth

#Giving Up #Doors #Human Nature
What we need to do is follow the axiom of World War II which was 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' and the media has really got to follow that.
-- David Hackworth

#War #Media #Needs
Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.
-- David Hackworth

#Moving #Men #Target
So it's not a matter of the military lying to the press, but it's the job of the military to deny the press any information that will provide aid and comfort to the enemy.
-- David Hackworth

#Jobs #Military #Lying
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.
-- David Hackworth

#Fighting #Army #Finding Yourself
If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
-- David Hackworth

#Sound #Feckless #Moral
Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.
-- David Hackworth

#War #People #Survival
The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.
-- David Hackworth

#War #Taken #Racket
That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!
-- David Hackworth

#Troops #Stuff #Right Stuff
Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.
-- David Hackworth

#Writing #Alive
Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.
-- David Hackworth

#War #Scripts #Easy
That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.
-- David Hackworth

#Religious #Islamic #Axes
War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.
-- David Hackworth

#War #Reality #Horror
Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves
-- David Hackworth

#Moving #Winning #Keys
Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.
-- David Hackworth

#Cancer #Fighting #Cells
Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.
-- David Hackworth

#Islamic #Middle East #World
Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.
-- David Hackworth

#Real #Enemy #Too Late
In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.
-- David Hackworth

#Men #Order #Rifles
Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the everyday involvement of the American people.
-- David Hackworth

#Commitment #Years #People
We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.
-- David Hackworth

#Military #War #Media

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