"A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal."

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Source : T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War”, p.480, Open Road Media

T. R. Fehrenbach

#Fighting Quotes #America Quotes #People Quotes

“I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential.”

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“As a strong woman, there are things I would never put up with.”
“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.”
“Even the people who do great jokes, [it's] always coming out of a very real place.”
“It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda. The record suggests, however, that the policy-makers stayed in Vietnam not so much because of overly optimistic hopes of winning ... as because of overly pessimistic assessments of the consequences of losing.”

Source : Jonathan Schell (1987). “The real war: the classic reporting on the Vietnam War with a new essay”, Pantheon
“A good beginning makes a good end.”
“She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been said cannot be unsaid.”
“...in your living room, you're scared shitless. And that's just where the power structure wants you. In the middle of a riot, I've never found anybody who's chickenshit. The way to eliminate fear is to do what you're most afraid of.”

Source : Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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