T. R. Fehrenbach Quotes

• You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it,and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud.

  T. R. Fehrenbach

  Military, Land, Civilization

  T. R. Fehrenbach (1994). “This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain range, without counting, and who will suffer and die in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to democratic America. He is the stuff of which legions are made. His pride is in his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face and his obedience is to his orders. He has been called United States Marine.

  T. R. Fehrenbach

  Pride, Marine, Fighting

  T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War”, p.482, Open Road Media

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• A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal.

  T. R. Fehrenbach

  Fighting, America, People

  T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War”, p.480, Open Road Media

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• To make a war, sometimes it is necessary that everyone guess wrong.

  T. R. Fehrenbach

  War, Sometimes

  T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind.

  T. R. Fehrenbach

  Heart, Texas, Crucible

  T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans”, p.4, Open Road Media

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