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“but if you learn to be faithful in the small things, you’ll be faithful in the big ones.”
― Mike Pompeo, Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love

“Justice Thomas looked directly at his Senate accusers and uttered these words: “I would rather die than withdraw. I will not be scared. I’ve never run from”
― Mike Pompeo, Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love

“estimate that by the time I left the Agency, I reduced the amount of paperwork coming to my desk for approval by somewhere between 40 percent and 70 percent. By eliminating myself as a choke point, the Agency got better and faster. I had delegated responsibility to leaders who were good enough to own it. And I could apply more of my energies to the items that truly mattered”
― Mike Pompeo, Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love

“look around the table: my ex-wife, my ex-girlfriend and me. We aren’t a law firm— we’re a support group. Somebody will probably name a 12-step program after us.”
― Sheldon Siegel, Incriminating Evidence

“Deprivation has been used for centuries with prisoners and entire populations to control people,” Kent said. “It’s an easy way to break their will, make them too weak to fight, keep them confused and squabbling among themselves.”
― Isabella Maldonado, The Falcon

“And right now, we are not prepared for anything. That could have deadly consequences in this world.”
― Jeff Shaara, The Old Lion: A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt

“Weakness invites aggression. I truly believe that, and I truly believe we are dangerously weak.”
― Jeff Shaara, The Old Lion: A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt

“no one should have to be ordered to prepare for war. It’s a dangerous world,”
― Jeff Shaara, The Old Lion: A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt

“the troops should be housed in quarters that were thoroughly ventilated and disinfected. As a crowning touch of lunacy to the recommendations, the War Department advised that the soldiers avoid moving about in the sun, making every effort to move outdoors only in the coolest part of the day. It was certain that none of these medical people had ever been in a war.”
― Jeff Shaara, The Old Lion: A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt

“Good lesson, Mr. Hagedorn. Listening can sometimes be better than talking. I’m not the best example of that, I admit.”
― Jeff Shaara, The Old Lion: A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt

“It’s up to the government to keep the peace, to maintain justice.”
― Jeff Shaara, The Old Lion: A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt

“No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.”
― David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

“declared; still, the squadron was not ready to sail.”
― David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

“was common for local authorities, knowing the unpopularity of the press, to dump their undesirables. But these conscripts were wretched, and the volunteers were little better. An admiral described one bunch of recruits as being “full of the pox, itch, lame, King’s evil, and all other distempers, from the hospitals at London, and will serve only to breed an infection in the ships; for the rest, most of them are thieves, house breakers, Newgate [Prison] birds, and the very filth of London.” He concluded, “In all the former wars I never saw a parcel of turned over men half so bad, in short they are so very bad, that I don’t know how to describe it.”
― David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

“One sailor described a man-of-war as a “set of human machinery, in which every man is a wheel, a band, or a crank, all moving with wonderful regularity and precision to the will of its machinist—the all-powerful captain.”
― David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

“believe it, you can achieve it. My Academy experience created”
― Mike Manazir, Learn How to Lead to Win: 33 Powerful Stories and Leadership Lessons