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Rick Atkinson Quote: “Power,” as John Adams had written, “always thinks it has a great soul.”

51. “Power,” as John Adams had written, “always thinks it has a great soul.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “Mail finally arrived for some troops – many had received nothing for two months or more – and Christmas packages often implied a certain homefront incomprehension of life in the combat zone: bathrobes, slippers, and phonograph records were particularly popular.”

52. “Mail finally arrived for some troops – many had received nothing for two months or more – and Christmas packages often implied a certain homefront incomprehension of life in the combat zone: bathrobes, slippers, and phonograph records were particularly popular.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “In the fall of 1969, a hundred Vassar students arrived from Poughkeepsie to preach peace and distribute daisies. They left a few hours later, frustrated by their inability to debate successfully against the cadets, who were well provisioned with statistics and syllogisms. One cadet graciously accepted a proffered flower, then ate it. Another excused himself from the picket line discussion by claiming that he was late for “poison gas class.”

53. “In the fall of 1969, a hundred Vassar students arrived from Poughkeepsie to preach peace and distribute daisies. They left a few hours later, frustrated by their inability to debate successfully against the cadets, who were well provisioned with statistics and syllogisms. One cadet graciously accepted a proffered flower, then ate it. Another excused himself from the picket line discussion by claiming that he was late for “poison gas class.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “Roughly five thousand African Americans would eventually serve in the Continental Army, a more integrated national force than would exist for nearly two centuries.”

54. “Roughly five thousand African Americans would eventually serve in the Continental Army, a more integrated national force than would exist for nearly two centuries.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.”

55. “Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “Any great leader in any society probably gives better than he gets.”

56. “Any great leader in any society probably gives better than he gets.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “Never before in the history of warfare have so few been commanded by so many.”

57. “Never before in the history of warfare have so few been commanded by so many.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “Tis worth the experiment. Audaces fortuna juvat” – fortune favors the bold – though he tempted fortune by adding, “Should we fail I don’t see any fatal consequences which are likely to attend it.”

58. “Tis worth the experiment. Audaces fortuna juvat” – fortune favors the bold – though he tempted fortune by adding, “Should we fail I don’t see any fatal consequences which are likely to attend it.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “Voltaire had observed, history is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.”

59. “Voltaire had observed, history is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “After killing hundreds of American and British soldiers during TORCH, the French had failed to so much as scratch a single German invader.”

60. “After killing hundreds of American and British soldiers during TORCH, the French had failed to so much as scratch a single German invader.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “Thomas Paine, who had a shrewd eye for military matters, was closer to the mark in a public letter to Admiral Howe published in early 1777. “In all the wars which you have formerly been concerned in, you had only armies to contend with,” Paine observed. “In this case, you have both an army and a country to combat.”

61. “Thomas Paine, who had a shrewd eye for military matters, was closer to the mark in a public letter to Admiral Howe published in early 1777. “In all the wars which you have formerly been concerned in, you had only armies to contend with,” Paine observed. “In this case, you have both an army and a country to combat.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “Discipline,” Washington had written in 1757, “is the soul of an army.” Certainly.”

62. “Discipline,” Washington had written in 1757, “is the soul of an army.” Certainly.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “The myth of violated innocence meant that the rebel stockpiling of war supplies in recent months must remain obscure, along with details about the colony’s deft, robust call to arms. A narrative congealed, and with it a brilliant propaganda stratagem: Gage was the aggressor; redcoats fired first; helpless civilians had been slaughtered.”

63. “The myth of violated innocence meant that the rebel stockpiling of war supplies in recent months must remain obscure, along with details about the colony’s deft, robust call to arms. A narrative congealed, and with it a brilliant propaganda stratagem: Gage was the aggressor; redcoats fired first; helpless civilians had been slaughtered.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “In one typical battalion, of forty-one officers who had landed on Sicily in July, only nine remained, and six of them had been wounded, according.”

64. “In one typical battalion, of forty-one officers who had landed on Sicily in July, only nine remained, and six of them had been wounded, according.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “It was the indispensable institution, led by the indispensable man, and the coupling of a national army with its commander marked the transformation of a rebellion into a revolution. “Confusion and discord reigned in every department,” Washington wrote in late July. “However we mend every day, and I flatter myself that in a little time we shall work up these raw materials into good stuff.”

65. “It was the indispensable institution, led by the indispensable man, and the coupling of a national army with its commander marked the transformation of a rebellion into a revolution. “Confusion and discord reigned in every department,” Washington wrote in late July. “However we mend every day, and I flatter myself that in a little time we shall work up these raw materials into good stuff.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “Of all the king’s officers who would die in battle during the long war against the Americans, more than one out of every eight had perished in four hours on a June afternoon above Charlestown.”

66. “Of all the king’s officers who would die in battle during the long war against the Americans, more than one out of every eight had perished in four hours on a June afternoon above Charlestown.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “Clinton’s version went on for eight pages in his tidy, nearly indecipherable hand, the runic words canting to the right as if into a headwind.”

67. “Clinton’s version went on for eight pages in his tidy, nearly indecipherable hand, the runic words canting to the right as if into a headwind.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “Walpole sniffed, “to prostitute his character and authenticate his hypocrisy.”

68. “Walpole sniffed, “to prostitute his character and authenticate his hypocrisy.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “An officer who lost an eye or a limb would receive a year’s pay and medical expenses; the widows of officers killed in action would also get a year’s pay, plus another third for each child. Those who died of their wounds within six months were “deemed slain in battle.” No bonuses were announced for enlisted men.”

69. “An officer who lost an eye or a limb would receive a year’s pay and medical expenses; the widows of officers killed in action would also get a year’s pay, plus another third for each child. Those who died of their wounds within six months were “deemed slain in battle.” No bonuses were announced for enlisted men.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “Franklin concurred with Samuel Johnson that ship travel was like being in jail without the comforts of jail.”

70. “Franklin concurred with Samuel Johnson that ship travel was like being in jail without the comforts of jail.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “They were a borderland people, living on the far rim of empire, where in six or seven generations the American clay had grown sturdy and tall. They were patriots – if that term implied political affiliation rather than a moral state of grace – who were disputatious and litigious, given to violence on the frontier and in the street: a gentle people they were not. Their disgruntlement now approached despair, with seething resentments and a conviction that designing, corrupt men in.”

71. “They were a borderland people, living on the far rim of empire, where in six or seven generations the American clay had grown sturdy and tall. They were patriots – if that term implied political affiliation rather than a moral state of grace – who were disputatious and litigious, given to violence on the frontier and in the street: a gentle people they were not. Their disgruntlement now approached despair, with seething resentments and a conviction that designing, corrupt men in.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “The dawn was bright and blowing. Angels perched unseen on the shrouds and crosstrees. Young men, fated to survive and become old men dying abed half a century hence, would forever remember this hour, when an army at dawn made for the open sea in a cause none could yet comprehend. Ashore, as the great fleet glided past, dreams of them stepped, like men alive, into the rooms where their loved ones lay sleeping.”

72. “The dawn was bright and blowing. Angels perched unseen on the shrouds and crosstrees. Young men, fated to survive and become old men dying abed half a century hence, would forever remember this hour, when an army at dawn made for the open sea in a cause none could yet comprehend. Ashore, as the great fleet glided past, dreams of them stepped, like men alive, into the rooms where their loved ones lay sleeping.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “As required by the unwritten rules of military calamity, the initial attack went well.”

73. “As required by the unwritten rules of military calamity, the initial attack went well.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “In the end the war was of a piece with all wars: unpredictable, cruel, and violent, damning the innocent and guilty alike.”

74. “In the end the war was of a piece with all wars: unpredictable, cruel, and violent, damning the innocent and guilty alike.”

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Rick Atkinson Quote: “In a phone call one evening the corps commander grew incensed when Ward mentioned his good fortune in losing no officers in combat that day. “Goddammit, Ward, that’s not fortunate. That’s bad for the morale of the enlisted men,” Patton snapped. “I want you to get more officers killed.”

75. “In a phone call one evening the corps commander grew incensed when Ward mentioned his good fortune in losing no officers in combat that day. “Goddammit, Ward, that’s not fortunate. That’s bad for the morale of the enlisted men,” Patton snapped. “I want you to get more officers killed.”

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