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. — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
“There was and is no danger of military domination of the nation. The Constitution gave Congress the power of life or death over the… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
“They will not face the fact that the military professionals, while some have ideas about society in general that are distorted and must be… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
“Conventional air action, in Korea, could be decisive only when coupled with decisive ground action.” — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, there was government by consent of the governed in America—but just as unfortunately, such governments dearly hate to admit a mistake.” — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
“The problem is to see not what is desirable, or nice, or politically feasible, but what is necessary.” — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
“Americans have never admitted that guns may serve a moral purpose as well as votes.” — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
“Yet every democratic government is reluctant to face the fact. Reservists and citizen-soldiers stand ready, in every free nation, to stand to the colors and die in holocaust, the big war. Reservists and citizen-soldiers remain utterly reluctant to stand and die in anything less. None want to serve on the far frontiers, or to maintain lonely, dangerous vigils on the… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share
“Washington had not even one pipeline into official circles of enemy capitals; they could not even estimate what the potential aggressor was thinking or… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
“A diplomat’s words must have no relation to actions—otherwise what kind of diplomacy is it? Words are one thing, actions another. Good words are… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
“The real issues are whether the power of Western Civilization, as God has permitted it to flower in our own beloved lands, shall defy and defeat Communism; whether the rule of men who shoot their prisoners, enslave their citizens, and deride the dignity of man, shall displace the rule of those to whom the individual and his individual rights are… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share
“A free press is equally free to print the truth or ignore it, as it chooses.” — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
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