Victor Davis Hanson Quotes

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• Can-do Americans courageously go about their duty in Iraq - mostly unafraid that a culture of 2,000 years, the reality of geography, the sheer forces…
• Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies proved…
• Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in Lebanon, Africa, Saudi Arabia, New…
• For all the criticism about warlords, it is now likely that Afghanistan will never again be turned over to al Qaeda to train thousands to…
• It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost anyone who comes…
• Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.
• Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all the fascists and…
• The American people are not naifs who yearn for isolationism, but they are starting to ask some hard questions about the way we have been…
• The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it seems to be…
• I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or a…
• Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it.…
• In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for allowing Shiites and…
• A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border is not secure…
• The problem with deterrence - apparently sometimes forgotten by our former presidents - is that it is not static, but a creature of the moment,…
• The fact is that we have been consistent in a predictable 60-year commitment to national security, while our friends and former enemies - by intent…
• The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark Ages when no…
• It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom...never .
• Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
• Obama's immigration legacy will be the juxtaposition of his serial insistence that he was not a king or an emperor, and could not contravene the…
• Illegal immigration is praised only by those who benefit directly from it, whether in the familial sense of inexpensive nannies, cooks, or gardeners; or in…

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