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Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.

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What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village and hamlet in the States, if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition! Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots? "He got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much." Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

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The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

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Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

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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!

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That atomic energy though harnessed by American scientists and army men for destructive purposes may be utilised by other scientists for humanitarian purposes is undoubtedly within the realm of possibility. ... An incendiary uses fire for his destructive and nefarious purpose, a housewife makes daily use of it in preparing nourishing food for mankind.

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To maintain an army at a distance causes the people to be impoverished.

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Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

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In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.

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An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.

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Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

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One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.

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But when I looked at a lot of the questions they had on them army tests, I just didn't know the answers. I don't even know how to start after finding the answers. That's all.

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Fashion is merely a saying: I belong to your world. I'm wearing the same uniform as your army, so don't shoot.

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There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over.

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Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.

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I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.

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An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.

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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

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Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

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