"If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck."
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"Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible."
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"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."
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"In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!"
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"Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat."
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"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."
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"Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won't let ambulances reach the injured."
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"Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect."
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"So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
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"If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is tempermental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected."
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"The best generals are those who have served in the artillery."
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"I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers."
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"Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny."
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"This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
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"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."
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"The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully. We Americans don't want war and we don't start fights. We don't maintain a strong military force to conquer or coerce others. The purpose of our military is simple and straightforward: we want to prevent war."
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"My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day."
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"The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea."
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"I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it."
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"I never worry about action, but only inaction."
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