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🇺🇸George W. Bush

Politics

1824–1900

"No device of man can remove the tragedy from war, yet it is a great advance when the guilty have far more to fear from war than the innocent."

"Most people never see the trap they are in."

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

"If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn."

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🇺🇸Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military

1890–1969

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

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🇫🇷Napoleon I of France

Politics

1769–1821

"A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination."

"Sam is the only person I've ever physically threatened on a set."

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

"If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that's the answer."

"If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up."

"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."

"Not a single Storm Trooper would have followed Röhm. The whole body was merely a revolt of leaders, and only quite a small group of the leaders were willing to take part."

"I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he'd been through, never worried about it.... I thought it would be me."

"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."

"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."

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

"We were never involved in politics. It was the political party that pushed their agenda, the Bill, forward and we only reacted to the consequences the Bill would bring."

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

"I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones..."

"Service is service, wherever it occurred. The defense of the fatherland is no small thing."

"Why is Killing Abortionists Like George Tiller So Wrong?"

"Israel must decide quickly what sort of environment it wants to live in because the current model, which has some apartheid characteristics, is not compatible with Jewish principles."

"Center for Cooperative Research profile of Stephen Hadley"

"Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing."

"When I was in the military I always made it my first mission to burn the enemy's crops!"

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

"Interview on the Iranian Arms Scandal from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives"

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🇺🇸William Tecumseh Sherman

Military

1820–1891

"We do want and will have a just obedience to the laws of the United States. That we will have, and, if it involves the destruction of your improvements, we cannot help it."

"And Freedom shrieked - as Kosciuszko fell!"

🇵🇰Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

Politics

1924–1988

"I genuinely feel that the survival of this country lies in democracy and democracy alone."

"That is the most wonderful training an actor can have. If you can speak Shakespeare, you can speak anything. And it gives you complete poise and grace of movement."

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🇦🇷Jorge Rafael Videla

Politics

1925–2013

"As many people as necessary must die in Argentina so that the country will again be secure."

"“Impossible!” he said, as if he believed it—or as if he wanted awfully badly to believe it."

"It is really a good thing that the English should be unmasked at last and that the world should see what miserable hypocrites they are."

"Give me a Japanese division armed with bamboo spears and I'll wipe out the entire Russian Far Eastern Army."

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