39 Quotes by David Hackworth

If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.

Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.

That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.