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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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"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." »Marechal Ferdinand Foch
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"Love is a kind of military service." »Latin Proverb
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"military intelligence is a contradiction in terms." »Julius Henry Marx
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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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"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 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 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 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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"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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"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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"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology." »Rebecca West
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"Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology." »Dame Rebecca West
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"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology." »Rebecca West
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"Despite everything I've achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight of what's truly important. The thing that gives meaning to these triumphs. Someone to share them with. A companion. A help mate. A wife." »Andrew Schneider
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"There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution." »Michael Gartner
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"The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it." »John Whitehead
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"Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do neccesary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government." »SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.
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