David M. Shoup famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal criticâ€”that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.
When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.
Air travel efficiency would improve if more travelers started going to less popular places.
Make yourself an efficient spark plug, igniting the latent energy of those about you.
If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would.

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