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Victor Davis Hanson has 44 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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,…
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Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because…
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Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in Lebanon, Africa,…
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For all the criticism about warlords, it is now likely that Afghanistan will never again be turned over to al Qaeda to…
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It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost…
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Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.
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Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all…
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The American people are not naifs who yearn for isolationism, but they are starting to ask some hard questions about the way…
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The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it…
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I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political…
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Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant…
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In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for…
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We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain…
— Sam Houston
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the…
— Thomas Adams
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The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.
— Thomas Browne
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If you will scoff at language study how, save in terms of language, will you scoff?
— Mario Pei
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Songwriting becomes a conscious attempt to delve into the unconscious. Even those writers who scoff at the concept of a spiritual source…
— Paul Zollo
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Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.
— William Ernest Henley
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I realize that idealism is out of sync with the cynicism of our age. Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication,…
— Howard Schultz
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You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any…
— Thomas Sowell
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It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Whatever your work and whatever its worth, No matter how strong or clever, Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this…
— Jack Handey
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