Civics Quote by Victor Davis Hanson

I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Offering 'comprehensive' reform usually means years of arguing and horse-trading among pressure groups to get anything done. By the time all the special interests…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and…

— Victor Davis Hanson

I see a continuation of the populist outrage that prompted the Brexit and sparked the Bernie Sanders campaign.

— Victor Davis Hanson

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

— Victor Davis Hanson

“Nicholas Monsarrat’s epic postwar novel of the Battle of the Atlantic, The Cruel Sea, is a quite different, nightmarish elemental story of men at…

— Victor Davis Hanson

The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark Ages when…

— Victor Davis Hanson

For all the criticism about warlords, it is now likely that Afghanistan will never again be turned over to al Qaeda to train thousands…

— Victor Davis Hanson

The columnist like myself or people at Stanford University don't wake up in the morning and see their job outsourced. Yet we promote free…

— Victor Davis Hanson

A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border is not…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“Japan would live and die by the race card—defining (and demonizing) America as “white” and thus Japan as a kindred but clearly superior “yellow”…

— Victor Davis Hanson

The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce…

— Victor Davis Hanson