The Very Last War Quotes

“Cultivated apathy is the last refuge of the fearful and the cowardly. Apathy in the electorate is the fairlead in the ruination of the American system; it will accomplish what all the armies of the world cannot. “It is fertile soil for tyranny, and it will always lead to tyranny. Not ‘might lead.’ Not ‘can lead.’ Tyranny is the only possible result.”
― W.H. Hawthorne, The Very Last War

“You learn to shoot so the righteous will always defeat the tyrannical.”
― W.H. Hawthorne, The Very Last War

“Yes, sir. ‘Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice.”
― W.H. Hawthorne, The Very Last War

“this”
― W.H. Hawthorne, The Very Last War

“the most addictive thing in all existence is accomplishment.”
― W.H. Hawthorne, The Very Last War

“There may come a day when some Least Generation of Americans finally surrenders to sloth and envy and throws away all that has been bought by long years of labor and toil, lifetimes of accumulated treasure, centuries of accumulated wisdom, and, ultimately, the life-blood of countless patriots.
“What we have to ask ourselves—you and I, right here and right now—is whether we are that generation, and whether that day is today.”
-Jake O’Connor in The Very Last War by WH Hawthorne”
― W.H. Hawthorne, The Very Last War