David Hackworth Quotes & Sayings
19 most famous David Hackworth quotes and sayings (soldier). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.”
“If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.”
“It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.”
“Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.”
“Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administrations - has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away.”
“We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.”
“Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.”
“In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.”
“Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.”
“Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.”
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