Victor Davis Hanson Quotes

"This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice."
-Victor Davis Hanson

"A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian Wars."
-Victor Davis Hanson

"Can-do Americans courageously go about their duty in Iraq - mostly unafraid that a culture of 2,000 years, the reality of geography, the sheer forces of language and religion, the propaganda of state-run Arab media and the cynicism of the liberal West are all stacked against them."
-Victor Davis Hanson

"States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking."
-Victor Davis Hanson

"If many thousands of illegal aliens marched in their zeal, many more millions of Americans of all different races and backgrounds watched - and seethed. They were struck by the spectacle of illegal alien residents lecturing citizen hosts on what was permissible in their own country."
-Victor Davis Hanson

"It is an odd war, because the side that I think is losing garners all the press. Yet we hear nothing of the other side that is ever so slowly, shrewdly undermining the enemy."
-Victor Davis Hanson

"Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations, all places where wealth is not created, but analyzed, critiqued, and lavishly spent."
-Victor Davis Hanson

"Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured."
-Victor Davis Hanson