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"For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business." »D. W. Brogan
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"We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue." »Sarah Brady
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"Living and dying is not the big issue. The big issue is what you're going to do with your time while you are here." »Bill T. Jones
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"Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that." »D. H. Lawrence
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"Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue." »Demosthenes
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"The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect." »Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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"There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue they're called humorists." »Cullen Hightower
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"You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses ... storming around about this issue. (On student protesters against Vietnam War)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military." »Georges Clemenceau
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"military justice is to justice what military music is to music." »Julius Henry Marx
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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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"I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'." »William Shakespeare
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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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"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 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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"There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. ... Let them come to Berlin" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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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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"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing." »Mark Twain
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"Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute." »William Hazlitt
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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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"My writing is like a ten gallon spring. It can issue from the ground anywhere at all. On smooth ground it rushes swiftly on and covers a thouasand li in a single day without difficulty. When it twists and turns among mountains and rocks, it fits its form to things it meets: unknowable. What can be known is, it always goes where it must go, always stops where it cannot help stopping -- nothing else. More than that, even I cannot know." »Su Shih
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