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“The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.”
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“I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.”
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“When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.”
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“Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.”
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“But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. 'Might makes right,' and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.”
Source : Adin Ballou (1848). “Christian non-resistance, in all its important bearings, illustrated and defended”, p.87
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“It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.”
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“Adolf Hitler may have been wrong all down the line, but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up from lance corporal in the German Army to Führer of a people of almost 80 million. ... His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to this man.”
Source : "The Eichmann Memoir" by James Noxon, The Personalist, Cover image Volume 42, Issue 3, onlinelibrary.wiley.com. July 1961. 
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“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.”
Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
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“Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.”
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“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”
