Clair Erdman > Clair's Quotes

“No authority; no discipline; the revolutionaries of that November found, as revolutionaries generally find, that it is easier to destroy an old system than to replace it.”
― Richard Bassett, Hitler's Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery

“Hitler had hypnotized large segments of the German populace with theatrical performances at rallies where he promised to make their country great again.”
― Terrence Petty, Enemy of the People: The Untold Story of the Journalists Who Opposed Hitler

“Discipline won’t do it, because discipline relies on punishment, and there is no punishment the Army can inflict on a front-line soldier worse than putting him into the front line.3”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest