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“What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means.”

Men Mean Ideas Moral Conditions Military Habit Organization Army Bravery Internals Officers Superiority

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is through the dispositions of an army that its condition may be discovered. Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory,; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat.”

May Shows Secret Conditions Victory Army Defeat Disposition Patents

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“The condition that is most disagreeable in your life becomes the most useful one. You know, I feel the same way about the U.S. Army. It was absolutely the worst experience of my life, and it was probably the single most valuable experience.”

Knows Way Feels Worst Conditions Army Valuable Disagreeable

Author:Norman Mailer

“Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.”

Men Ends Whole Government Humanity Universe Hours White Cities Conditions Conversation Army Desert Sand Organize Moss Feasting

Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have just realized that it is due to you, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Army Navy Country Club that the putting green here on the White House lawn is already in such excellent condition. I assure you that I get a great deal of pleasure and relaxation out of using the green in an occasional late afternoon hour . . .”

“But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation”

Has Beens Conditions Destruction Army Liberation Transformed Aggravation Deteriorating Living Conditions

Book:Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

Source: Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson