"Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy."

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"Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy."

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"To care is our endless sense if duty."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"We have to make it a personal responsibility to eradicate ignorance from our society."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Thou shalt not stand idly by."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"Why was I chosen?''Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then so is my duty to my country or my race. If the pursuit of scientific knowledge is a real value, then so is conjugal fidelity. The rebellion of new ideologies against the Tao is a rebellion of the branches against the tree: if the rebels could succeed they would find that they had destroyed themselves."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find them ready."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"There should ne'er be a timeWhen a duty or dimeDoth outshineThe importance of family."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus."

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"We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid."

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"Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget."

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"This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner."

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"And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we want to backslide into an era that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear weapon for every tactical mission?"

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"What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt."

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"Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country."

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"As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs."

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"Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy."

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"Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion."

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