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"He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing."
"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."
"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army"
"What I say is join me and be part of the army and find ways that maybe even I haven't thought of I haven't even thought of to help spread this message and inspire people to do what inspires them. That's what I need you to do."
"Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone."
"Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies."
"We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march."
"Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies."
"Israel exists; it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders; and it has a right to demand of its neighbors that they recognize those facts. I have personally followed and supported Israel's heroic struggle for survival, ever since the founding of the State of Israel 34 years ago. In the pre-1967 borders Israel was barely 10 miles wide at its narrowest point. The bulk of Israel's population lived within artillery range of hostile Arab armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again."
"Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity."
"To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape."
"As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy."
"Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory."
"The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer: let such a one be retained in command! The general that hearkens not to my counsel nor acts upon it, will suffer defeat: - let such a one be dismissed!"
"Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted."
"Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety."
"Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence."
"Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises."
"Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army."
"An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined."
