Devotion Quotes

“Words can have all the power in the world or—none at all. That’s up to you.”
― Adam Makos, Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

“Ensign Brown, if I've learned anything, it's that death's gonna get us all, but we've got some say in how we go. You die flying a Corsair, well that says enough.”
― Adam Makos, Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

“If you're going to do something, then do it right, or don't bother doing it at all.”
― Adam Makos, Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

“He had long forgotten the tough Portuguese boy Manny Cabral but not Manny's lesson- that a man would reveal his character through his actions, not his skin color.”
― Adam Makos, Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

“He had overcome his airsickness by simply taking the controls. Flying, instead of riding, made all the difference.”
― Adam Makos, Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

“Words can have all the power in the world or-none at all. That's up to you.”
― Adam Makos, Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

“Always assume the best of people. But if a guy proves he's no good, then don't hesitate to give him what he deserves." pg.14”
― Adam Makos, Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

“Words can have all the power in the world or — none at all. That’s up to you.”
― Adam Makos, Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

“Someone has to speak for those who paid the ultimate price. —”
― Adam Makos, Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

“When someone calls you a 'nigger', then you feel sorry for him... You have to pity him because his mind has such a sorry way of expressing itself.”
― Adam Makos, Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

“Always assume the best of people. But if a guy proves he's no good, then don't hesitate to give him what he deserves.”
― Adam Makos, Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

“Ensign Brown, if I’ve learned anything, it’s that death’s gonna get us all, but we’ve got some say in how we go. You die flying a Corsair, well, that says enough. Ensign”
― Adam Makos, Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

“Stalin was a driving force behind the Korean War. After NATO stonewalled communism in Europe, Stalin turned to Asia. He appointed a “Little Stalin” in North Korea named Kim Il Sung and told him in 1949: “You must strike the Southerners in the teeth….Strike them, strike them.” Soviet tacticians then drew up the battle plans for the North Korean invasion of the south and Kim Il Sung assured Stalin: “The attack will be swift and the war will be won in three days.”
― Adam Makos, Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

“When the Soviet army liberated war-ravaged Eastern Europe, they had promised the people free elections with Hitler gone. At first, Stalin kept his promise. But when communist parties in Poland, Hungary, Germany, and Austria lost in the free elections of ’45 and ’46, Stalin set his secret police, the NKVD, in motion. The secret police reopened former Nazi concentration camps, Auschwitz to imprison Poles and Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen to imprison East Germans. The communists built sixteen new camps to hold Hungarians.”
― Adam Makos, Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

“lesson—that a man would reveal his character through his actions, not his skin color.”
― Adam Makos, Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

“Enemy flak is usually inaccurate...but when you start taking hits you'll have to call it accurate”
― Adam Makos, Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice