Fehrenbach Quotes

#1. liberal society, in its heart, wants not only domination of the military, but acquiesence of the military toward the liberal view of life.

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#2. To make a war, sometimes it is necessary that everyone guess wrong.

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#3. Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind.

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#4. The United States will be forced to fight wars of policy during the balance of the century. This is inevitable, since the world is seething with disaffection and revolt, which, however justified and merited, plays into Communist hands, and swings the world balance ever their way.

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#5. As days are numbered and life is short, why waste days feeling bad for yourself?

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#6. America is rich and fat and very, very noticeable in this world. It is a forlorn hope that we should be left alone.

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#7. These men had not accepted the fact that culture and weaponry, or even culture and plumbing are not synonymous, and while a society may lag a hundred years behind in comforts and ethics, it may catch up in hardware in a human lifetime.

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#8. If war is to have any meaning at all, its purpose must be to establish control over peoples and territories, and ultimately, this can be done only as Alexander the Great did it, on the ground.

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#9. But control does not imply petty interference.

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#10. The problem is to see not what is desirable, or nice, or politically feasible, but what is necessary.

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#11. I'm a doer.
I do.
So. When I say I'm going to do something, I do it. When I say I'm going to do something, I really do it. I throw myself into it and I do. I do my ass off. I do right up to the finish line. No matter what.
No.
Matter.
What.

Shonda Rhimes

#12. No matter how cultured or ancient the civilization, no average American is going to condone the absence of flush toilets. Not now, not ever.

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#13. A free press is equally free to print the truth or ignore it, as it chooses.

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#14. You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it,and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud.

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#15. Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

John Bruton

#16. 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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#17. History has shown very clearly that for democracy to continue, the people, and not the generals or even the executive authority, must have control over the military. The

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#18. I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

Bethenny Frankel

#19. Fortunately, there was government by consent of the governed in America - but just as unfortunately, such governments dearly hate to admit a mistake.

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#20. I didn't start smoking weed till my junior year. I had a boyfriend who smoked a lot, and I was like, "Oh, I guess I'm moving on to this phase of life." I didn't fight it at all.

Ilana Glazer

#21. Americans have never admitted that guns may serve a moral purpose as well as votes.

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#22. Collective security had a fine sound, but it was still little more than a word; it would still be the United States, and the United States alone, that held the far frontier. No one else had the will or the power.

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#23. War was to be entered upon with sadness, with regret, but also with ferocity.

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