"Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning."

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Source : David Hackett Fischer (2006). “Washington's Crossing”, p.370, Oxford University Press

David Hackett Fischer

#War Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Winning Quotes

“If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?”
“The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.”
“We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.”
“The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.”
“The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.”
“Let us join hands and build a truly South African nation.”
“Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.”
“Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.”

Source : "Big Daddy's Rules: Raising Daughters Is Tougher Than I Look". Book by Steve Schirripa, www.today.com. 2013.

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