Victor Davis Hanson People Quotations

The American people are not naifs who yearn for isolationism, but they are starting to ask some hard questions about the way we have been doing business for 50 years, and it may well be time to grant the French, Canadians, Germans, Turks, South Koreans, and a host of others their wishes for independence from us: polite friendship - but no alliances, no bases, no money, no trade concessions, and no more begging for the privilege of protecting them.

I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.