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Top 25 T.R. Fehrenbach Quotes (2025 Update)

T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “During the Korean War, the United States found that it could not enforce international morality and that its people had to live and continue to fight in a basically amoral world. They could oppose that which they regarded as evil, but they could not destroy it without risking their own destruction.”

1. “During the Korean War, the United States found that it could not enforce international morality and that its people had to live and continue to fight in a basically amoral world. They could oppose that which they regarded as evil, but they could not destroy it without risking their own destruction.”

— T.R. Fehrenbach

T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “From the first, the peasantry saw little to lose through Communist rule, and perhaps much to gain. Only much later, when the land is collectivized and the iron hand shows through the paternal glove, and when it is too late, does the peasant who has been Communized realize his loss. Communized, he ceases to be an individual man, losing an identity that even the most abject poverty could not take from his before.”

2. “From the first, the peasantry saw little to lose through Communist rule, and perhaps much to gain. Only much later, when the land is collectivized and the iron hand shows through the paternal glove, and when it is too late, does the peasant who has been Communized realize his loss. Communized, he ceases to be an individual man, losing an identity that even the most abject poverty could not take from his before.”

— T.R. Fehrenbach

T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “In 1950 a Marine Corps officer was still an officer, and a sergeant behaved the way good sergeants had behaved since the time of Caesar, expecting no nonsense, allowing none. And Marine leaders had never lost sight of their primary – their only – mission, which was to fight. The Marine Corps was not made pleasant for men who served in it. It remained the same hard, dirty, brutal way of life it had always been.”

3. “In 1950 a Marine Corps officer was still an officer, and a sergeant behaved the way good sergeants had behaved since the time of Caesar, expecting no nonsense, allowing none. And Marine leaders had never lost sight of their primary – their only – mission, which was to fight. The Marine Corps was not made pleasant for men who served in it. It remained the same hard, dirty, brutal way of life it had always been.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “No matter how cultured or ancient the civilization, no average American is going to condone the absence of flush toilets. Not now, not ever.”

4. “No matter how cultured or ancient the civilization, no average American is going to condone the absence of flush toilets. Not now, not ever.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “Marine human material was not one whit better than that of the human society from which it came. But it had been hammered into form in a different forge, hardened with a different fire. The Marines were the closest thing to legions the nation had. They would follow their colors from the shores of home to the seacoast of Bohemia, and fight well either place.”

5. “Marine human material was not one whit better than that of the human society from which it came. But it had been hammered into form in a different forge, hardened with a different fire. The Marines were the closest thing to legions the nation had. They would follow their colors from the shores of home to the seacoast of Bohemia, and fight well either place.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “If war is to have any meaning at all, its purpose must be to establish control over peoples and territories, and ultimately, this can be done only as Alexander the Great did it, on the ground.”

6. “If war is to have any meaning at all, its purpose must be to establish control over peoples and territories, and ultimately, this can be done only as Alexander the Great did it, on the ground.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “An army in the field, in contact with the enemy, can remain idle only at its peril. Deterioration – of training, physical fitness, and morale – is immediate and progressive, despite the strongest command measures. The Frenchman who said that the one thing that cannot be done with bayonets is to sit on them spoke an eternal truth.”

7. “An army in the field, in contact with the enemy, can remain idle only at its peril. Deterioration – of training, physical fitness, and morale – is immediate and progressive, despite the strongest command measures. The Frenchman who said that the one thing that cannot be done with bayonets is to sit on them spoke an eternal truth.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “But the abiding weakness of free peoples is that their governments can not or will not make them prepare or sacrifice before they are aroused.”

8. “But the abiding weakness of free peoples is that their governments can not or will not make them prepare or sacrifice before they are aroused.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “Because the American people have traditionally taken a warlike, but not military, attitude to battle, and because they have always coupled a certain belligerence – no American likes being pushed around – with a complete unwillingness to prepare for combat, the Korean War was difficult, perhaps the most difficult in their history.”

9. “Because the American people have traditionally taken a warlike, but not military, attitude to battle, and because they have always coupled a certain belligerence – no American likes being pushed around – with a complete unwillingness to prepare for combat, the Korean War was difficult, perhaps the most difficult in their history.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “As a construct, history is too often revised to match contemporary views. It has been said that each generation must rewrite history in order to understand it. The opposite is true. Moderns revise history to make it palatable, not to understand it. Those who edit “history” to popular taste each decade will never understand the past – neither the horrors nor glories of which the human race is equally capable – and for that reason, they will fail to understand themselves.”

10. “As a construct, history is too often revised to match contemporary views. It has been said that each generation must rewrite history in order to understand it. The opposite is true. Moderns revise history to make it palatable, not to understand it. Those who edit “history” to popular taste each decade will never understand the past – neither the horrors nor glories of which the human race is equally capable – and for that reason, they will fail to understand themselves.”

— T.R. Fehrenbach

T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “For his own sake and for that of those around him, a man must be prepared for the awful, shrieking moment of truth when he realizes he is all alone on a hill ten thousand miles from home, and that he may be killed in the next second.”

11. “For his own sake and for that of those around him, a man must be prepared for the awful, shrieking moment of truth when he realizes he is all alone on a hill ten thousand miles from home, and that he may be killed in the next second.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “While few men, legislators or otherwise, have felt down the years that they could command ships of the line or marshal air armies without specialized training, almost any fool has felt in his heart he could command a regiment.”

12. “While few men, legislators or otherwise, have felt down the years that they could command ships of the line or marshal air armies without specialized training, almost any fool has felt in his heart he could command a regiment.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “None of them were equipped, trained, or mentally prepared for combat. For the first time in recent history, American ground units had been committed during the initial days of a war; there had been no allies to hold the line while America prepared. For the first time, many Americans could understand what had happened to Britain at Dunkirk.”

13. “None of them were equipped, trained, or mentally prepared for combat. For the first time in recent history, American ground units had been committed during the initial days of a war; there had been no allies to hold the line while America prepared. For the first time, many Americans could understand what had happened to Britain at Dunkirk.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “A war is made when a nation or group of nations is frustrated in political aims or when ends can be achieved in no other way.”

14. “A war is made when a nation or group of nations is frustrated in political aims or when ends can be achieved in no other way.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “Wars of containment, wars of policy, are not. They are hard to justify unless it is admitted that power, not idealism, is the dominant factor in the world, and that idealism must be backed by power.”

15. “Wars of containment, wars of policy, are not. They are hard to justify unless it is admitted that power, not idealism, is the dominant factor in the world, and that idealism must be backed by power.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “The United States will be forced to fight wars of policy during the balance of the century. This is inevitable, since the world is seething with disaffection and revolt, which, however justified and merited, plays into Communist hands, and swings the world balance ever their way.”

16. “The United States will be forced to fight wars of policy during the balance of the century. This is inevitable, since the world is seething with disaffection and revolt, which, however justified and merited, plays into Communist hands, and swings the world balance ever their way.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “Revolution and terror are synonymous; only with the passage of time does any revolution become respectable.”

17. “Revolution and terror are synonymous; only with the passage of time does any revolution become respectable.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “There had been many brave men in the ranks, but they were learning that bravery of itself has little to do with success in battle.”

18. “There had been many brave men in the ranks, but they were learning that bravery of itself has little to do with success in battle.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “Soviet strategy, like Soviet thinking, has always been devious where American has been direct.”

19. “Soviet strategy, like Soviet thinking, has always been devious where American has been direct.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “These men had not accepted the fact that culture and weaponry, or even culture and plumbing are not synonymous, and while a society may lag a hundred years behind in comforts and ethics, it may catch up in hardware in a human lifetime.”

20. “These men had not accepted the fact that culture and weaponry, or even culture and plumbing are not synonymous, and while a society may lag a hundred years behind in comforts and ethics, it may catch up in hardware in a human lifetime.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “A war is made when a government believes that only through war, and at no serious risk to itself, it may gain its ends.”

21. “A war is made when a government believes that only through war, and at no serious risk to itself, it may gain its ends.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “Conquerors who question themselves or their values soon cease to be conquerors, whatever else they become.”

22. “Conquerors who question themselves or their values soon cease to be conquerors, whatever else they become.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “A continuing problem of this static war was that senior officers did not have enough to do to make them keep their hands off their junior’s affairs. Or they had time to think up new projects, from painting fire buckets red to promulgating the color of name tags on enlisted fatigues.”

23. “A continuing problem of this static war was that senior officers did not have enough to do to make them keep their hands off their junior’s affairs. Or they had time to think up new projects, from painting fire buckets red to promulgating the color of name tags on enlisted fatigues.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “If another war follows Korea, if American policy is threatened anywhere on the globe, it will not be years and months, as in the two world wars, or days, as in Korea, but only hours until American troops are committed. In battle, Americans learn fast – those who survive. The pity is, their society seems determined to make them wait until the shooting starts. The word should go out sooner.”

24. “If another war follows Korea, if American policy is threatened anywhere on the globe, it will not be years and months, as in the two world wars, or days, as in Korea, but only hours until American troops are committed. In battle, Americans learn fast – those who survive. The pity is, their society seems determined to make them wait until the shooting starts. The word should go out sooner.”

— T.R. Fehrenbach

T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “But while Americans are well conditioned to death on the highways, they are not ready to accept death on the battlefield for apparently futile reasons.”

25. “But while Americans are well conditioned to death on the highways, they are not ready to accept death on the battlefield for apparently futile reasons.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “In addition to restraint of objective, the second necessary ingredient of limited war is a professional army large enough to handle any task.”

26. “In addition to restraint of objective, the second necessary ingredient of limited war is a professional army large enough to handle any task.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “Like the Indian Wars, it would leave a troubled feeling, a trauma, in its wake. Crusades, even when failures, are emotionally satisfying. Wars of containment, wars of policy, are not. They are hard to justify unless it is admitted that power, not idealism, is the dominant factor in the world, and that idealism must be backed by power.”

27. “Like the Indian Wars, it would leave a troubled feeling, a trauma, in its wake. Crusades, even when failures, are emotionally satisfying. Wars of containment, wars of policy, are not. They are hard to justify unless it is admitted that power, not idealism, is the dominant factor in the world, and that idealism must be backed by power.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “Many a general who would have walked up a hill blazing with enemy fire without thinking twice quailed in his polished boots on the receipt of a congressional letter.”

28. “Many a general who would have walked up a hill blazing with enemy fire without thinking twice quailed in his polished boots on the receipt of a congressional letter.”

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T.R. Fehrenbach Quote: “Americans should remember that while barbarians may be ignorant they are not always stupid.”

29. “Americans should remember that while barbarians may be ignorant they are not always stupid.”

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