T.r. Fehrenbach Quotes

#1. But control does not imply petty interference.

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

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#3. How much of yourself will you give them in exchange?

Alaya Dawn Johnson

#4. 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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#5. The idea that one thing that will define you, forever, is pretty amazing," I said. "It makes you choose it more carefully.

Katie Kacvinsky

#6. 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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#7. '419 scams,' named for a clause from the Nigerian penal code, are such a part of the white noise of the digital age that we no longer notice them.

Evan Osnos

#8. 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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#9. The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.

N.J. Dawood

#10. Whenever you notice that voice, you will also realize that you are not the voice, but the one who is aware of it.

Eckhart Tolle

#11. My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#12. 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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#13. Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.

Dallas Willard

#14. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

Irving Stone

#15. In my experience there are only a handful of reasons for murder ... Jealousy, vengeance, greed, fear and pleasure ... Some killers enjoy the kill ... For them it is a great game, and for the most part they are the ones I hunt.

Amanda Quick

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

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

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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. United won't fall asleep against Liverpool. They'll win it in their sleep

Paul Merson

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

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

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#29. Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

Annie Dillard

#30. Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.

Verlyn Klinkenborg

#31. Now that I'm retired, I want to say that all defensive linemen are sissies.

Dan Fouts

#32. As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.

Damon Lindelof