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“The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.”

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Book:The Revolt of the Angels

Source: The Revolt of the Angels

“It is on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular.”

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Book:Hume: Political Essays

Source: Hume: Political Essays

“I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions.”

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Author:Cindy Sheehan

“I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of the British middle class - lower-middle class actually - after the war. My father broke into the middle class by joining the navy. I was the first member of my family ever to go to private school or even to university. So, the armed forces had been upward mobility for him.”

“The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to imposethe views of the revolutionists upon the British government and large sections of the colonial population at whatever cost to freedom of opinion or the sanctity of life and property.”

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Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“In a world where the threat is asymmetrical, where the weak defy the strong, the power of conviction, the capacity to convince, the ability to sway opinion count as much as the number of military divisions.”

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Author:Dominique de Villepin

“For, once man is declared 'the measure of all things,' there is no longer a true, or a good, or a just, but only opinions of equal validity whose clash can be settled only by political or military force; and each force in turn enthrones in its hour of triumph a true, a good, and a just which will endure just as long as itself.”

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Author:Bertrand de Jouvenel

“After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.”

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Author:Michael Hastings

“In my opinion, provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern international law and the United Nations Charter.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“That's give [Donald Trump] so much attention. And it's so funny. There actually have conflicting opinions on women in combat, in the military. So they have all the issues that stake. I'm more concerned with the VA than anything else.”

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Author:John McCain

“When President Bush sees America, he sees only a military superpower. I see a moral and idealistic beacon. Mr. Bush may talk about democracy all he wants, but it is not democracy to wilfully disdain and heap scorn on world opinion. We do not command moral leadership by starting pre-emptive wars.”

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Author:John F. Kerry

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”