Last Stands Quotes

“The only culture that doesn't defend itself is one bent on suicide.”
― Michael Walsh, Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost

“Today’s West has precisely the opposite problem. We seek to bury our past for having the effrontery for not living up to the moral standards of the present—but what else do we inter with it?”
― Michael Walsh, Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost

“soldier’s job, as Patton put it so bluntly and yet so eloquently in a speech to his Third Army during World War II, was to kill or die: “No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”
― Michael Walsh, Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost