H. R. McMaster quote: "Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration."

In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by id...
H. R. MCMASTER

Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion.
H. R. MCMASTER

The professed war-weariness among populations who have sent only a small percentage of their sons an...
H. R. MCMASTER

What is certain about the future is that even the best efforts to predict the conditions of future w...
H. R. MCMASTER

You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivel...
H. R. MCMASTER

We're so enamored of technological advancements that we fail to think about how to best apply th...
H. R. MCMASTER

The key thing about force protection is... if you focus too much on force protection, and you diseng...
H. R. MCMASTER

It is in their inherent moral components that recent Western strategies may be deficient. What perce...
H. R. MCMASTER

Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
H. R. MCMASTER

We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
H. R. MCMASTER

It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's...
H. R. MCMASTER

War is, in fact, an extension of politics, and in any war, military operations have to be conducted ...
H. R. MCMASTER

The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the 'New Yor...
H. R. MCMASTER

Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise...
H. R. MCMASTER

There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically me...
H. R. MCMASTER

Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and ...
H. R. MCMASTER

When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live ...
H. R. MCMASTER

Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces...
H. R. MCMASTER

Although combat operations unseated the Taliban and the Saddam Hussein regime, a poor understanding ...
H. R. MCMASTER

We often operate effectively on the physical battleground but not on the psychological battleground....
H. R. MCMASTER

In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, '...
H. R. MCMASTER

It is clear that while our Army was engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, Russia studied U.S. capabilitie...
H. R. MCMASTER

Because war is a competition involving life and death, and in which national security and vital inte...
H. R. MCMASTER

It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across thei...
H. R. MCMASTER

What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by do...
H. R. MCMASTER

It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of...
H. R. MCMASTER

My personal experience in Ninawa Province has been that, at the most fundamental level, people don&#...
H. R. MCMASTER

I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
H. R. GIGER

I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?
H. R. GIGER

I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to t...
H. R. GIGER

You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite ...
H. R. GIGER

No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
H. R. GIGER

You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it&...
H. R. GIGER

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.
H. R. GIGER

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the fo...
H. R. GIGER

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. ...
H. R. GIGER

You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
H. R. GIGER

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
H. R. GIGER

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misi...
H. R. HALDERMAN

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they su...
H. R. HAWEIS

Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too...
R. H. HUTTON

In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that...
R. H. HUTTON

All good government must begin at home.
H. R. HAWEIS

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.
H. R. HAWEIS

Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings.
H. R. HAWEIS

Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, li...
R. H. BLYTH

There isnothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.
H. R. SCHAFFER

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the painting...
H. R. GIGER

You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
H. R. HALDEMAN

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
R. H. GRANT

Love builds bridges where there are none.
R. H. DELANEY

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in!
H. R. HALDEMAN

Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, li...
R. H. BLYTH

It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Onl...
R. H. COASE

Every president needs an SOB-and I'm Nixon's.
H. R. HALDEMAN

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, over...
H. R. GIGER

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocri...
H. R. TREVOR-ROPER

It was inevitable that Jesus Christ should be crucified. It was also inevitable that He should rise ...
H. R. L. SHEPPARD

He had no little handkerchief to wipe his little nose.
REV. R. H. BARHAM

The Lady Jane was tall and slim, / The Lady Jane was fair.
REV. R. H. BARHAM

And six little singing-boys, - dear little souls! / In nice clean faces, and nice white stoles.
REV. R. H. BARHAM

She drank prussic acid without any water,/ And died like a Duke-and-a-Duchess's daughter!
REV. R. H. BARHAM

Why, Captain! - my Lord! - Here's the devil to pay! / The fellow's been cut down and taken away! / W...
REV. R. H. BARHAM

And a nice little boy had a nice cake of soap, / Worthy of washing the hands of the Pope.
REV. R. H. BARHAM

Never was heard such a terrible curse ! ! / But what gave rise / To no little surprise, / Nobody see...
REV. R. H. BARHAM

He would pore by the hour, o'er a weed or a flower, / Or the slugs that come crawling out after a sh...
REV. R. H. BARHAM

Las Vegas is the perfect host city to bring new energy to the Miss America Pageant. It should make f...
ART MCMASTER

We had hundreds of volunteers, and the thing worked like clockwork.
ART MCMASTER

the pageant's continued vitality and growth.
ART MCMASTER

Atlanta is a nice city, ... I'm sure they would have the facilities.
ART MCMASTER

She is really influenced by mass media Hollywood. A lot of her works include drawings of celebrities...
CHRISTINA MCMASTER

[Pageant officials thanked the Atlantic City community for its longstanding support of the pageant.]...
ART MCMASTER

The decision to leave the longtime home in Atlantic City was made after extremely careful deliberati...
ART MCMASTER

I will give you my days... but, my dear sorceress, your nights are mine.
BEC MCMASTER

What we wanted to do is find a new host city that has all glitz and glamour Miss America is known fo...
ART MCMASTER

It was a strictly financial decision. The revenues just aren't there anymore. People think we wanted...
ART MCMASTER

There's really one major difference between this tax return and last year's, and that is the differe...
ART MCMASTER

We're trying to promote these young ladies as tomorrow's leaders. We're going to push scholastic ach...
ART MCMASTER

The days of big money are gone, and the days of big-money production companies are gone. The big mon...
ART MCMASTER

We've received four unsolicited calls today. They want to start talking. They want to talk about the...
ART MCMASTER

We needed to find a better partner, one that better understands our values. CMT's audience is the he...
ART MCMASTER

The decision to leave the pageant's longtime home in Atlantic City was made after extremely careful ...
ART MCMASTER

She's very smart. She is pretty sharp. She's really concerned about people. She has a hilarious sens...
CHRISTINA MCMASTER

Once we reach Las Vegas the game faces come on.
ART MCMASTER

He tells me there'll be no sex in it, and I expect there won't. It's a very moral novel about life t...
BRIAN MCMASTER

A number of major artists said they'd like to be part of my last festival and it was an offer I coul...
BRIAN MCMASTER

When I hear a little about something like this, I want to get the whole story. Joe was one of the bi...
GARY MCMASTER

Most of the World War II veterans are in their 80s now, and many are dying. Their families are putti...
GARY MCMASTER

I think what we saw today was the effect of our counterinsurgency and security operations in Tall Af...
HR MCMASTER

A couple of months ago, they might not have been able to pull it together after something like that....
HR MCMASTER

Is there enough force here right now to secure this area permanently? No. Are there opportunities fo...
HR MCMASTER

The enemy here did just the most horrible things you can imagine, in one case murdering a child, pla...
HR MCMASTER

The enemy had sensed a reduction of U.S. forces.
HR MCMASTER

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H.

Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
H.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road...
H.

No, no, never send interim reports," said Miles. "Only final ones. Interim reports tend to elicit or...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

I know my limits." "No one knows their limits till they've gone beyond them.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

But I know you have courage, and I know you have will. The rest is just picking yourself up and ramm...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfor...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Women shouldn't be in combat," said Vorkosigan, grimly glum.
"Neither should men, in my opinio...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you wer...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic."
"I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods.
Prayer, he suspected as he hoist...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

All virtues come down to courage, at the sharp end of the sword. But courage must be tempered by pru...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all thei...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Royse Bergon: "I've seen your integrity in action. It...widened my world. I'd been raised by my fath...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been a...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

An honor is not diminished for being shared.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isthe higher achievement.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Miles was…the thing is, he was afflicted with a severe birth injury. He grew up pretty much crippl...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, w...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore....
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing devi...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordi...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers a...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Oh, was that liquor of yours a stimulant?" asked Elena. "I wondered why he didn't fall asleep."
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst poss...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weig...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great onc...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection....
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

What you are is a question only you can answer.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, w...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

You try to give away what you want yourself.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't tr...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chosethough not always what I pleased.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the w...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. Sh...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better o...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Our children change us... whether they live or not.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

My home is not a place, it is people.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnatio...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pa...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

You have to be careful who you let define your good.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get fo...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's ski...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then yo...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if y...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see our...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

A son should inherit his father's money - not his religion; he may be too lazy to build upon a new f...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Miles had sworn his officer's oath to the Emperor less than two weeks ago, puffed with pride at his ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous busin...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Galeni made her smile but not laugh. The lack of any sense of play between them worried Miles; you h...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Vormurtos leaned on the frame with his arms crossed, and failed to move aside.

At Miles's...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Real destiny takes everything—the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure—and gi...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Hunting hawks did not belong in cages, no matter how much a man coveted their grace, no matter how g...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

He let his head rest against the crisp cloth of her uniform jacket a moment longer. She shifted, her...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Mon Dieu, it’s the little admiral,” she said cheerfully. “What are you doing here?” Ignoring...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

The door was locked. The control had been buggered. Miles ripped it apart, shorted it out, and heave...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

How does a kidnapping grab you?” She giggled inexplicably. “Absolutely not!” “Oh, you’re g...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

We’re just good friends,” caroled Miles, and laughed hysterically. He lunged for the comconsole�...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

You make yourself sound like a Venn diagram. ‘The set of all sets which are members of themselves�...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Some attitudes couldn't be changed, they just had to be outlived
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force—
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

. . . people do get hypnotized by the hard choices. And stop looking for alternatives.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

I had to discover and teach myself all kinds of tricks to get people to respond to the inside of me,...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

H. R. McMaster

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