Patrick Sheehan

“Men are not ciphers, and hearts, even Communist hearts, are not potatoes, and Americans would do well to remember it.”
― T.R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War

“One of our biggest challenges is making sure our life’s purpose doesn’t become a beggar’s bowl, a bottomless pit of desire continually searching for the next thing that will make us happy. That’s a losing proposition.”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“American newspapers never again devoted much attention to the exploits or condition of the ROK Army. Consequently, few Americans have understood the ROK contribution to the Korean War, and most have tended to deprecate it.”
― T.R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War

“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, This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War