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🇺🇦Nestor Makhno

Military

1888–1934

"Anarchism — a life of freedom and creative independence for humanity."

"...self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment."

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🇺🇸Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military

1890–1969

"Guardians of Freedom – 50th Anniversary of Operation Arkansas, by ARMY.MIL"

"The purpose of military is to start wars and change governments and it's not sort of...deter conflict? we're gonna invade countries? and you know, my mind was spinning..."

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🇺🇸Allen West (politician)

Military

b. 1961

"The American flag has a very touching meaning for those of us for whom it will drape our coffin — as it was for my Dad…and it will be for me."

"To those soldiers who must often have wondered WHY they were going where they did. Perhaps this will help answer their questions."

"Article 11 of the NPT states that if we are threatened, we can act in secret."

"Just to get a job is always really exciting to me. I do feel there's a lot left for me to learn about movies, the subtleties of acting."

"To all who serve... and those who love them."

"Full text of "War Is A Racket", Internet Archive"

"You really don't think about it as you go through it; you just try to do the right thing at the right time."

"From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune."

"My commitment in fighting to end these counterproductive regime change wars is based on these experiences and my understanding the cost of war and who pays the price."

"Joining the army is not a sacrament, it's a pagan allegiance."

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🇬🇧Tikendra Dal Dewan

Military

"“What we are talking about here is the honing of those skills to make them more effective. It is no good using it like a hammer; the khukri has to be used with delicacy.”- Tikendra Dal Dewan."

"I do not mean that bombs and pistols are useless, rather the contrary. But I mean to say that mere bomb-throwing is not only useless but sometimes harmful."

"Be of one mind and one faith, that you may conquer your enemies and lead long and happy lives."

"We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state."

"I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new mobile phone every few months just because a new one comes out."

"As the late Howard Zinn once said, "There is not a flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."

"Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there."

"War is the highest summit of human achievement; it is the natural, the final stage in the historical development of humanity."

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🇮🇳Kanwar Pal Singh Gill

Military

1934–2017

"“people of all political parties who were anti-Modi and anti-BJP were taking advantage of his inexperience."

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🇺🇸Bernard Brodie (military strategist)

Military

1910–1978

"Yet the only empirical data we have about how people conduct war and behave under its stresses is our experience with it in the past, however much we have to make adjustments for subsequent changes in conditions."

"We are role models to a lot of young people, not just African Americans and soldiers."

"An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes."

"Neither Germany nor Italy have doubts. Our crisis is not a material crisis. We have lost faith in our destiny...We are like mariners without a pilot."

"I think, that it is our common duty from now on to stop Chinese penetration of the international Communist movement and in relation to Western powers to show China as the main present and future troublemaker."

"Follow the road behind the Emperor. We must build the world for Japan's sake, heaven ordered Japan to achieve this great mission."

"Memoirs of Lieut.-General Scott, LL.D. by Winfield Scott, Vol.1 - Vol. 2"

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🇷🇺Stanislav Levchenko

"I have been the last to sign this treaty; I will be the last to break it."

2 quotes

🇺🇸Oliver Hazard Perry

Military

1785–1819

"Downloadable resources regarding Oliver Hazard Perry, American Library Association."

"The longer the war drags on, more and more civilians are getting killed."

"Gheorghiu-Dej put more people in prison, but he had a motive. Ceausescu had no motive to do what he did. Things were worse under the last ten years of Ceausescu. It was terrible what he did."

"Parachuting has taught us to be strong, and only those are needed by our country"

"Throughout my years in Romania, I always took my KGB bosses with a grain of salt, because they used to juggle the facts around so as to make Soviet intelligence the mother and father of everything."

"I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is to arrange the meeting."

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