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"It is only after mature deliberation and thorough preparation that I have decided upon the Program of Revolution and defined the procedure of the revolution in three stages. The first is the period of military government; the second, the period of political tutelage; and the third, the period of constitutional government."
"I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them."
"Artillery is the god of war."
"Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging."
"Artillery conquers and infantry occupies."
"Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth."
"Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!"
"Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory."
"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."
"World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals."
"I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire."
"The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."
"Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits"
"Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."
"You can do everything with bayonets, but you are not able to sit on them"
"Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision."
"Give us the tools, and we will finish the job"
"Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it."
"This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere."
"In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497."
