Arleigh Burke Quotes
There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.
Heinl, Robert Debs. Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations. United States Naval Institute, 1966.
At the time the President denied that he had decided to invade Iraq. Skelton saw the “handwriting on the world.”
Defending torture and other violations of civil rights by the Secret Service during the Civil War:
The meaning is that to be victorious in war one should not be inhibited from doing cruel and brutal things that war sometimes necessitates.
With a professionalized all volunteer military, most of whom came from just a few socio-economic strata of our society, wars at the time were fought and the risks and burdens borne by a small part of American society. The rest of society, unlike the Second World War did not experience any change in their style or standard of living.
Arleigh Albert Burke was an admiral of the United States Navy who distinguished himself during World War II and the Korean War, and who served as Chief of Naval Operations during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations.
