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| Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. | | Groucho Marx | | |
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| One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace. | | Benito Mussolini | | |
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| Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. | | Bertrand Russell | | |
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| Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders. | | Ambrose Bierce | | |
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| Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. | | Aldous Huxley | | |
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| The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. | | David Friedman | | |
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| The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
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| The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. | | Joseph Heller | | |
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| The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. | | George Patton | | |
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| The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | | |
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| The pen may be stronger than the sword... but I'd rather have a sword in a dark alley. | | Andrew Warnick | | |
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| The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each tends to ascribe to the other side a consistency, foresight and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, even two blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room. | | Henry Kissinger | | |
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| There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. | | Victor Hugo | | |
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| They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. | | Benjamin Franklin | | |
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| Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it. | | Anne O'Hare McCormick | | |
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| Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. | | Isaac Asimov | | |
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