Leo Jenkins > Quotes

“Great men are not made by way of moderation. Those poets, musicians, athletes, entertainers, and all who we’ve come to admire never capitulated to temperance. Their iron forged in the fire of excess. To be weak is to give in. To be strong is to abstain completely, but to be great is to indulge in all the pleasures and pains of life, to swim through the drowning tumult and turbulence and fear.”
― Leo Jenkins, First Train Out of Denver

“Humor is the coffee in a soldier’s cup; the darker the blend, the greater the morale boost.”
― Leo Jenkins, Lest We Forget: A Ranger Medic's Story

“John Stuart Mill said, "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
― Leo Jenkins, Lest We Forget

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” Sun Tzu”
― Leo Jenkins, Lest We Forget: A Ranger Medic's Story