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“The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know, with almost superhuman abilities. A large part of the National army, for instance, and most of the press of the country, clothed General Lee with just such qualities, but I had known him personally, and knew that he was mortal; and it was just as well that I felt this.”

People Knows Wells Country Felt Natural Ability Quality Known Army Presses Instance Mortals Disposition Commanders Superhuman General Lee

Book:Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters: Library of America #50

Source: Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters: Library of America #50

“With Yeltsin, the Soviet Union broke apart, the country was totally mismanaged, the constitution was not respected by the regions of Russia. The army, education and health systems collapsed. People in the West quietly applauded, dancing with and around Yeltsin. I conclude therefore that we should not pay too much attention to what the West is saying.”

People Should Country Pay Attention Too Much Constitution Army Dancing Unions West Russia Broke Regions Soviet Soviet Union Health System

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs”

Source: Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts

“It's not the side of the bigger army that wins. It's the country that tells a better story.”

Country Stories Winning Sides Bigger Army

Author:Shashi Tharoor