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“It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work.”

May States Sound United United States Military Havens Terrible Saved Conventional Conventional Life

Author:Robert Jay Lifton

“For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.”

May Military Training Valuable Practicals Theoretical Indirect Practical Experience

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance.”

Ifs May Loses Lines Study Military Balance Approach Aspect Sight Strategy Resistance Psychological Appeals Opponents Indirect Obviousness

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.”

May War Matter Evil Military

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.”

May Country Military Limits Noble Aspiration Evoke

Author:William Ralph Inge

“We make war that we may live in peace.”

“Palestine is occupied land, and under international law, the Palestinians have the legal right to resist this occupation by any and all means. This may make busses, restaurants, discos-where Israeli military congregate, lawful targets.”

May Mean Law Land Military International Restaurants Islamic Target Occupation Palestinian Palestine Israeli International Law Disco

Author:Enver Masud

“If the people are victorious against the government, the nation will be weak; if the government is victorious against the people, the military will have strength. [thus they] will have the means by which they may fight, and thus ascend to supremacy.”

People Ifs May Mean Government Fighting Nations Military Weak Supremacy Having Strength

Author:Shang Yang

“When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can't help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup.”

Ifs May I Can Country Helping Wonder Media Military Politician Educator Coups

Author:Thomas Sowell

“In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of a free republic may be prompted by a principle of duty; the subjects, or at least the nobles, of a monarchy, are animated by a sentiment of honor; but the timid and luxurious inhabitants of a declining empire must be allured into the service by the hopes of profit, or compelled by the dread of punishment.”

Source: EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including