War Quote by T. R. Fehrenbach Download Open image ““In effect, Truman had engaged the nation in war by executive action.”” — T. R. Fehrenbach ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare War
“As Truman saw the presidency, the chief responsibility was to make decisions and he made some of the most difficult and far-reaching of any… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them do… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Harry Truman's decision to fire Douglas MacArthur at the height of the Korean War in April 1951 shocked the American political system and astonished… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“And it was no accident, in the late forties, that the makers of American policy, unwilling to backtrack with the public, began to try… — T.R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
“He and Willoughby preferred that the Pentagon and the Truman administration be completely dependent upon them for any information about what was going on… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“Acheson immediately understood the urgency of this message. He summoned Ambassador Franks and told him that the United States resolutely opposed “the use of… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“was significant that every historic decision of the Truman Cabinet was debated by Congress only after it had been made irreversible.” — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
“The loyalty of those around Truman was total and would never falter. In years to come not one member of the Truman White House… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
During his presidency, Truman and the Republicans were locked in a series of furious assaults on each other that outraged him and made Truman… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman. — Paul Hoffman 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
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap. The 2011 military budget - almost matching that of the rest of the world combined - is higher in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“People came to our house from far and wide. Party and military bigwigs, some guy known as the “combat commander,” the village headman, and various hangers-on all made an appearance. Though our house was in the depths of the mountains, they somehow all managed to get there. They were no fools. They knew we had delicious food and drink to… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a batter. Love is a war. Love is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The world," said Pavone, "will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read Karl Marx, or because agitators will come out of Russia, but because, after the war is over, that will be the only way they can turn. Everything else will have been tried, everything else will have failed. And… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred… — Jill Stein Copy Share
Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle. Anyway, both of these impulses can destroy order, which comes out of both drives, and which is another human need I haven't yet fit into my scheme. So both have to be controlled. But in fact,… — Marilyn French Copy Share
