Robert A. Heinlein Quotes about Winning

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The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

Robert A. Heinlein

Military, War, Winning

Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.

Robert A. Heinlein

Hero, Fighting, Winning

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.78, Penguin