Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Michael A. Ledeen

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American historian Michael A. Ledeen.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Michael Arthur Ledeen is an American historian, and neoconservative foreign policy analyst. He is a former consultant to the United States National Security Council, the United States Department of State, and the United States Department of Defense. He held the Freedom Scholar chair at the American Enterprise Institute where he was a scholar for twenty years and now holds the similarly named chair at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He was very close to Antonio Martino.

American - Historian | Born: August 1, 1941

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Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That is the road to Greatness.

Michael A. Ledeen

In order to achieve the most noble accomplishments, the leader may have to 'enter into evil.' This is the chilling insight that has made Machiavelli so feared, admired, and challenging. It is why we are drawn to him still.

Michael A. Ledeen

There is no more dramatic proof of the death of the Left than the passage of its central vision - global democratic revolution - into the hands of those who call themselves conservatives.

Michael A. Ledeen

Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

Michael A. Ledeen

The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

Michael A. Ledeen

Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ.'

Michael A. Ledeen

I think the level of casualties is secondary... [A]ll the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion that we are a warlike people and that we love war... What we hate is not casualties but losing.

Michael A. Ledeen

They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission.

Michael A. Ledeen

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Michael A. Ledeen

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