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Quote by James Baker

“If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.”

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James Baker is an American politician known for his extensive experience in politics and diplomacy. He served as the White House Chief of Staff under President George H.W. Bush and was born on April 28, 1930. more

“The General Order is always: ......To manoeuver in a body and on the attack. ......To maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline. ......To keep the troops constantly at the ready. ......To employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go. ......To use the bayonet on every possible occasion. And to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed.”

Use Body Order Enemy Military Ready Discipline Destroyed Occasions Troops Strict Navy Vigilance Bayonets Follow Up Military General Military Discipline

Author:Lazare Carnot

“The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.”

Humans Race Liberty Conditions Military Degrees Human Race

Author:Dante Alighieri

“The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.”

Men Long War Politics Military Battle Training Aim Antiwar Military Training

Author:Louis Simpson

“I hated my part in the charade of murder and horror. My efforts were contributing to the deaths, to the burning alive of children - especially the children. The photographs of young Vietnamese children burned by napalm destroyed me.”

Children Young Effort Alive Military Horror Murder Photograph Destroyed Burning Hated Burned Contributing Vietnamese Charades Napalm

Author:Ralph McGehee

“Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Your wealth has been stripped of you by unjust men... The people of Baghdad shall flourish under institutions which are in consonance with their sacred laws.”

People Men Has Beens Law Wealth Cities Enemy Land Military Army Institutions Sacred Unjust Conqueror Baghdad Liberators Consonance

Author:Frederick Stanley Maude

“The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward. All wheeled vehicles sink up to their axles in the slime. Even tractors can only move with great difficulty. A large portion of our heavy artillery was soon stuck fast... The strain that all this caused our already exhausted troops can perhaps be imagined.”

Moving Team Military Needed Gun Horse Difficulty Heavy Stuck Portions Vehicle Drag Troops Exhausted Mud Strain Artillery Slime Tractors Infantryman

Author:Gunther Blumentritt

“If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.”

Ifs Years Two War Certain Fighting Force Five Blood Military Victory Years Ago Flow Destruction Twenties France Germany Five Years Twenty Five Barbarism

Author:Edouard Daladier

“Тhe battlefield in the air will be the decisive one”

Air Military Battlefields

Author:Giulio Douhet

“The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a quixotically valiant ally was being exterminated!”

World Stills Behinds Military Six Sitting Army Twenties Division Strongest Allies Concrete Steel Valiant Sitting Still

Author:J. F. C. Fuller

“Casualties? What do I care about casualties?”

Care Military I Care Casualties

Author:Aylmer Hunter-Weston

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