"The Rising Tide" Quotes
A gripping historical novel that follows the lives of key figures during World War II, capturing the monumental events and shifting tides of the early years of the war.
historical fiction | Published in 2014
Quotes
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Men, I want you just to remember one thing: we’re here to win the war. Nothing else matters.
There is no substitute for victory.
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It’s the same thing, fear, but it’s what you do with it that matters.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
There is a time for daring and a time for caution, and a wise man knows which is called for.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
