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"I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either." »Sophocles
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"I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either." »Sophocles, Antigone
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"'These are days you'll remember.' If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs." »Christine Todd
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"... Religion ... [is] the basis and foundation of government ... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the governor of the Universe." »James Madison
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"governor Romney may be running for CEO, I'm running for President" »Newt Gingrich
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"When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president" »Henry Kissinger
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"Well may we say God save the Queen, because nothing will save the Governor-General." »Gough Whitlam, Prime Minister of Australia, in a speech in 1975.
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"military justice is to justice what military music is to music." »Julius Henry Marx
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"War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military." »Georges Clemenceau
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"military intelligence is a contradiction in terms." »Julius Henry Marx
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"Love is a kind of military service." »Latin Proverb
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"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." »Marechal Ferdinand Foch
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"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Mtro." »Charles De Gaulle
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"My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field ... I could not answer." »General Douglas MacArthur, His final address to the joint session of the congress
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"If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military." »Harry S. Truman
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"If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe." »Lord Salisbury
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"If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe." »Lord Salisbury
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"My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso." »Pablo Piccaso
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"A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective." »Sun-tzu
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"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up." »Dean Acheson (1893 - 1971)
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"If you don't like the president, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents." »Edward Irving Koch
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"If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it (On military preparedness)" »Nikita Khrushchev
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"The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada." » Lorne Bloch
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"The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking." »Terry Pratchett, Eric
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"He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. (describing Saddam Hussein of Iraq, 1991)" »Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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"'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms." »Niall MacDermot
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"The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military." »William Orville Douglas
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"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." »George Washington
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"One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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"Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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