“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.” MindCountryHandsAmericaGivenLeaderForeverPoliticianSoldierLoyaltyCommunismStatesmenShort TimePsycho 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.” ShouldCountryUseLinesMilitaryPolicyToolsClaimsStrategyDemocraticSoldierOperationsBordersEmployeeSpheresInterfereDefiniteStatesmenSubservientDemocratic Country Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.” YearsStillsCountrySongVoicePowerfulIssuesIndustryCallingThousandEnvironmentalEldersStatesmenNelsonEnvironmental Issues Author:Willie Nelson
“American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.” CountryMightHappenedGroupsCenturyParticularCommittedMissionaryTribesOutlookStatesmenNineteenth CenturyResemblanceQuaintAfrican Tribes Author:A. J. P. Taylor