"Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen……" — Victor Davis Hanson
"Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly — and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and safe."
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44 Quotes by Victor Davis Hanson
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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…
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Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources…
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Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in…
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For all the criticism about warlords, it is now likely that Afghanistan will never again be turned over to al…
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It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities,…
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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…
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The American people are not naifs who yearn for isolationism, but they are starting to ask some hard questions about…
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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.…
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I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change…
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Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may…
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In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were…
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More Abroad Quotes
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long…
— Saint Augustine
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
— Saint Augustine
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Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
— Alec Baldwin
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
— John Quincy Adams
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It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for…
— Bill Bryson
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
— Samuel Butler
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The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a…
— Tucker Carlson
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly…
— William Ellery Channing
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own…
— Winston Churchill
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to…
— Kofi Annan
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We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it…
— Edward Kennedy
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