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Ahmed Ben Bella

"In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path."

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"In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path."

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Amber Hurdle

"The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them."

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Amber Hurdle

"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."

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Amber Hurdle

"They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise."

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Amber Hurdle

"One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all."

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Amber Hurdle

"I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer."

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Amber Hurdle

"We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have."

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Amber Hurdle

"Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs."

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Amber Hurdle

"We must maintain strong defenses, military and spiritual."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so."

Army

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us."

Beginning

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation."

Life

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them."

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