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David Hackworth

"That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!"

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"That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!"

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Akiroq Brost

"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

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Akiroq Brost

"No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want."

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"Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?"

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"Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling."

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Akiroq Brost

"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

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"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once."

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Akiroq Brost

"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

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Akiroq Brost

"Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once."

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Akiroq Brost

"Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society."

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"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."

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"Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there."
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"Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die."
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"If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed."
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"Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie."
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"War is the ultimate reality-based horror show."
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"In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time."
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"Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy."
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"Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops."
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