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Edward Said Literary Theorist, Critic, and Author
Military

"In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but none came; we have waited for a mighty military victory, but we were defeated roundly; we have waited for outside powers (the United States or, in its time, the Soviet Union), but none came to our aid. The one thing we have not tried in all seriousness has been to rely on OURSELVES: until we do that with a full commitment to success there is no chance that we can advance towards self-determination and freedom from aggression."

Military Commitment Determination
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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
Military

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."

Funny Military Hilarious
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Russell Simmons Entrepreneur, Music Producer
Military

"Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?'"

Military God Encouraging
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Francis Hughes Activist
Military

"I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for Ireland. If I have a duty I will perform it to the full with the unshakable belief that we are a noble race and that chains and bounds have no part in us"

Fighting Military Patriotic
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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

Moving Military Freedom
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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
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"The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode in foreign politics when it is especially an act of internal politics and the most atrocious act of all . . . Since the directing apparatus has no other way of fighting the enemy than by sending its own soldiers, under compulsion, to their death-the war of one state against another state resolves itself into a war of the state and the military apparatus against its own people."

War Fighting Military
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George Washington Military Leader, Politician
Military

"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies."

Wisdom Military Independent
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George Washington Military Leader, Politician
Military

"It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious."

Night Military Navy
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Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader, Emperor
Military

"How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death."

Men War Military
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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
Military

"Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others."

Military Brother Betrayal
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