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Samuel Adams Politician
Army

"And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions."

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Samuel Butler Novelist, Poet, Essayist
Army

"Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Army

"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important."

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"It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished."

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Sun Tzu Military Strategist
Army

"There are five kinds of incendiary attack: The first is called setting fire to personnel; the second, to stores; the third, to transport vehicles and equipment; the fourth, to munitions; the fifth, to supply installations...In all cases an army must understand the changes induced by the five kinds of incendiary attack, and make use of logistical calculations to address them."

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Sun Tzu Military Strategist
Army

"It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly."

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Sun Tzu Military Strategist
Army

"By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes, he prevents the enemy from anticipating his purpose. At the critical moment, the leader of an army acts like one who has climbed up a height and then kicks away the ladder behind him."

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Sun Tzu Military Strategist
Army

"Being unconquerable lies with yourself; being conquerable lies with your enemy."

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Sun Tzu Military Strategist
Army

"It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two."

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Sun Tzu Military Strategist
Army

"Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent."

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J. F. C. Fuller Military Strategist
Army

"National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane."

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Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader, Emperor
Army

"What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on."

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