"War seems to come out of nowhere, like……" — Victor Davis Hanson
"War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm."
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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 Iron Quotes
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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in…
— Aristotle
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I want to be America's Margaret Thatcher. I will be the next Iron Lady.
— Michele Bachmann
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I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the…
— Mario Batali
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The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron…
— Otto von Bismarck
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To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.
— Jeff Bridges
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or…
— Thomas Carlyle
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
— Winston Churchill
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
— Antisthenes
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The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment…
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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