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"Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues."
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"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."
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"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."
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"A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room."
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"If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them."
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"Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime."
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"It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations."
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"I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service."
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"One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all."
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"You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight."
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"Blinker Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that whatever increased the ship's efficiency was a criterion for change, had continued trampling on the toes of orthodoxy."
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"We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes."
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"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."
Writing
"Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people."
Man
"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."
Man
"The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people."
Change
"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?"
Man
"I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it."
World
"Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did."
Education
"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."
People
"It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble."
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