"It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues."
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"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance."
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"I'm a boys' girl! I come from an army background and I haven't known what being a 'good Indian girl' means."
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"The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture."
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"Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers."
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"The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone."
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"History shows that there are no invincible armies."
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"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy."
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"When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard."
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"You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat."
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"By the work one knows the workman."
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"It is through the dispositions of an army that its condition may be discovered. Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory,; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat."
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"For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill."
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"A starving army is actually worse than none."
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"Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right."
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"There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers , but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may to destroy the Federal Government and build up that of the traitors and rebels."
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"There is no doubt that the absence of a second front in Europe considerably relieves the position of the German Army, nor can there be any doubt that the appearance of a second front on the Continent of Europe - and undoubtedly this will appear in the near future - will essentially relieve the position of our armies to the detriment of the German Army."
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"the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril."
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"The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast."
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"Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."
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