“ The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality in wealth, and the often unfair and arbitrary nature of wh… Victor Davis Hanson
“ Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging that the sins of America are the sins of mankind, and that our… Victor Davis Hanson
“ This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework that would guarantee that the… Victor Davis Hanson
“ Future generations will learn whether human nature has remained constant—and thus enemies who face only a temporary loss of freedom will prove more, not less, bloodthirsty against both soldier and civ… Victor Davis Hanson
“ Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it. But victory has not become an ossified co… Victor Davis Hanson
“ General George Patton and others lamented that the Second World War had broken out in 1939 over saving the free peoples of Eastern Europe from totalitarianism—only to end, through the broken 1945 Yalt… Victor Davis Hanson
“ The United States, being a strong and wealthy society, and with unrivaled global influence, invites envy. The success of its restless culture of freedom, constitutional democracy, self-critique, secul… Victor Davis Hanson
“ Hillary apparently never appreciated that when she went after Trump’s sins of the flesh, it would quickly prove a losing proposition. Victor Davis Hanson
“ One can imagine what a candidate Trump would have done with the Wright-Obama connection had he been the 2008 Republican nominee. Victor Davis Hanson
“ Yet it is hard to find many wars that have resulted from miscommunications or misunderstandings. Far more often they break out because of malevolent intent and the absence of deterrence, or because a… Victor Davis Hanson
“ The great American contribution to the Red Army was not just food stocks and strategic materials but nearly four hundred thousand heavy transport trucks, which eventually allowed Stalin a mobility and… Victor Davis Hanson
“ Prewar education, reputation, influence, and rank matter little when the enemy is gaining ground and very few know how to turn him back. Victor Davis Hanson
“ Military history reminds us that those who died on behalf of democratic freedom to stop totalitarian killing were a different sort than totalitarians who died fighting against it to perpetuate killing… Victor Davis Hanson
“ In some sense, winning against impossible odds—when most others cannot or would not try—is the only mark of a great general. Victor Davis Hanson
“ Physical deprivation and hunger are one thing; the poverty of the mind and psyche is quite another. Crashing Costco to find bulk beans and rice is not the same as flash-mobbing for Air Jordans and iPh… Victor Davis Hanson
“ The United States was born through war, reunited by war, and saved from destruction by war. No future generation, however comfortable and affluent, can escape that terrible knowledge. Our freedom is n… Victor Davis Hanson
“ Often the white elite signaled their disgust of the white privilege of the disintegrating middle class as a means of exempting their own quite genuine white privilege of insider contacts, professional… Victor Davis Hanson
“ No society in the present age is so self-critical, so ready to embrace foreign ideas, or so transparent and merit-based as the United States. Far more lethal to the U.S. military than a new form of IE… Victor Davis Hanson
