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“The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.”

Needs Years Country Force Plans Commitment Originals Soldier Billions Experts Occupation Afghanistan Marshall Plan

Author:Ted Rall

“Given a short time with a psycho-politician you can alter forever the loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind.”

Mind Country Hands America Given Leader Forever Politician Soldier Loyalty Communism Statesmen Short Time Psycho

Author:Lavrentiy Beria

“The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of operations, and (especially in democratic countries) it drew the statesman on to overstep the definite border of his sphere and interfere with his military employees in the actual use of their tools.”

Should Country Use Lines Military Policy Tools Claims Strategy Democratic Soldier Operations Borders Employee Spheres Interfere Definite Statesmen Subservient Democratic Country

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: "Soldier, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries;- - those who love freedom and their country may follow me." That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life.”

“What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.”

War Country Father Blood Civilization Soldier Warm Civil War Patriot Veins Soldiers At War

Author:Clara Barton

“When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers.”

Men War Country Nations Soldier

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny; he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear to the French people, as it will be to all free men of the two worlds; and especially to French soldiers, who, like him and the American soldiers, have combated for liberty and equality.”

People Men World Two Country Memories Liberty Soldier Dear Tyranny Great Men Free Man Two Worlds American Soldier Liberty And Equality

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“In the soldier we see the love of country. When you are willing to go onto a battlefield and give your life to defend an ideal ... knowing that you may not live through day.”

Giving May Country Knowing Willing Yoga Ideals Soldier Karma Battlefields Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The soldier is willing to give their life, perhaps for someone they never even met in their country. That's a very high love.”

Giving Country Willing Mets Yoga Soldier Karma Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious , and we must never trumpet it as such.”

War Country Causes Sacrifice Arms Glory Soldier Devotion Glorious Trumpets Comrade

Author:Barack Obama

“America's entire war on terror is an exercise in imperialism. This may come as a shock to Americans, who don't like to think of their country as an empire. But what else can you call America's legions of soldiers, spooks and special forces straddling the globe?”

Thinking May War Country America Force Special Exercise Soldier Terror Shock Empires Globes Imperialism War On Terror Legion Special Forces

Book:Empire Lite

Source: Empire Lite

“100,000 soldiers are reported to have died in the Iraqi war. If you count 100 relatives of each soldier, it means that practically there are millions of people who now have antagonism toward the white people of America. These Arab people will remember this country whose main religion is Christianity, who came and destroyed all Iraqi facilities and industry. They won't easily forget this.”

People Ifs Mean War Country America Remember White Forget Christianity Millions Industry Died Soldier Destroyed Facility Antagonism

Author:Sun Myung Moon

“To estimate the value of Newton's discoveries, or the delight communicated by Shakespeare and Milton, by the price at which their works have sold, would be but a poor measure of the degree in which they have elevated and enchanted their country; nor would it be less grovelling and incongruous to estimate the benefit which the country has derived from the Revolution of 1688, by the pay of the soldiers, and all other payments concerned in effecting it.”

Country Would Be Values Poor Pay Revolution Degrees Benefits Discovery Concerned Soldier Delight Payment Newton Enchanted Milton

Book:Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application

Source: Principles of political economy considered with a view to their practical application

“When engaged in safe occupations, and living in healthy countries, men are much more apt to be frugal, than in unhealthy, or hazardous occupations, and in climates pernicious to human life. Sailors and soldiers are prodigals. . . . War and pestilence have always waste and luxury, among the other evils that follow in their train.”

Source: Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy: Exposing the Fallacies of the System of Free Trade, and of Some Other Doctrines Maintained in the

“Our soldiers did not go to some foreign country and risk their lives in vain and defend our Constitution so that decades later you can tell me it's a living document ever changing and is open to interpretation. The guys who wrote it were light years ahead of anyone today, and they meant what they said - now leave the document alone, or there's going to be trouble.”

Years Said Country Light Today Guy Risk Trouble Atheism Constitution Soldier Positive Atheism Decades Vain Interpretation Documents They Said Foreign Countries Light Years

Author:Ted Nugent