David Hackworth Quotes

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

  David Hackworth

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Doors

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• If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.

  David Hackworth

  Military, Fighting, Army

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• 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.

  David Hackworth

  Sound, Feckless, Moral

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• 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.

  David Hackworth

  Military, War, Media

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• Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves

  David Hackworth

  Moving, Winning, Keys

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• War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

  David Hackworth

  War, Reality, Horror

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

  David Hackworth

  Military, Moving, Men

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

  David Hackworth

  Religious, Islamic, Axes

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• 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.

  David Hackworth

  Men, Order, Rifles

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• Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.

  David Hackworth

  War, People, Survival

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• So it's not a matter of the military lying to the press, but it's the job of the military to deny the press any information that will provide aid and comfort to the enemy.

  David Hackworth

  Jobs, Military, Lying

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.

  David Hackworth

  Writing, Alive, Handball

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

  David Hackworth

  Real, Enemy, Too Late

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• Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.

  David Hackworth

  Cancer, Fighting, Cells

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• 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.

  David Hackworth

  Islamic, Middle East, World

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• What we need to do is follow the axiom of World War II which was 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' and the media has really got to follow that.

  David Hackworth

  War, Media, Needs

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!

  David Hackworth

  Stuff, Troops, Right Stuff

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• Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the everyday involvement of the American people.

  David Hackworth

  Commitment, Years, People

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• Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.

  David Hackworth

  War, Scripts, Easy

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• The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

  David Hackworth

  War, Taken, Racket

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