Dawn Like Thunder Quotes

“When confronted with the problem, the new and relatively feeble American nation, enervated and indebted after its long battle for independence, devoted more to local than national interests, and shunning international involvements, went in where others either had feared to venture or had failed, and in a great burst of power and courage, and over the handicaps of commanders at times ill-suited or incompetent, won, and left the world in a better state for its effort.”
― Glenn Tucker, Dawn Like Thunder: The Barbary Wars and the Birth of the U.S. Navy: The Barbary Wars and the Birth of the US Navy

“then it must be durable, founded on stipulations mutually beneficial, and with neither party claiming anything it was not prepared to give in like measure to the other.”
― Glenn Tucker, Dawn Like Thunder: The Barbary Wars and the Birth of the U.S. Navy: The Barbary Wars and the Birth of the US Navy