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"Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues."
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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."
"The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery."
"Being the commander of a Ruminarii war vessel meant that he had risen to the rank by means of assassination and ruthlessness and was therefore implicitly distrusted by the Tidhii Mah'k'hai (Naval Command, that is The Queen Of Suth Herself.) He was expected to mete out, in generous portions, brutality to conquered subjects and to act swiftly and mercilessly in dealing with alien encounters. In short, he was expected to be a bad example."
"So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime."
"Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her."
"I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it."
"My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness."
"And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program."
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"I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university."
"The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought."
"I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books."
"The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need."
"Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done."
"Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?"
"Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?"
"If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman."
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