Quotes, in general or about SGW

[High Empty]

"Knavery and flattery are blood relations."

—Abraham Lincoln

[High Empty]

"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war."

[Shinobii]

"When you dance with the devil, you wait for the song to stop"

[High Empty]

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

[High Empty]

"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property . . . Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."

"When constabulary duty's to be done
A policeman's lot is not a happy one."

[High Empty]

"An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself."


the most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

[High Empty]

"People in large masses may as well be sheep. Their collective intelligence drops to that of the weakest-minded member of the group. They bleat, they panic and are easily herded to safety, or to the slaughter."

[High Empty]

"You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics."

[High Empty]

"An important difference between a military operation and a surgical operation is that the patient is not tied down. But it is a common fault of generalship to assume that he is."

[High Empty]

"He who is skilled in attack flashes forth from the topmost heights of heaven, making it impossible for the enemy to guard against him. This being so, the places that I shall attack are precisely those that the enemy cannot defend. . . . He who is skilled in defense hides in the most secret recesses of the earth, making it impossible for the enemy to estimate his whereabouts. This being so, the places that I shall hold are precisely those that the enemy cannot attack."

[High Empty]

"The limitation of tyrants is the endurance of those they oppose.

[High Empty]

"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."

[High Empty]

"All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself.

[High Empty]

"Laws are silent in time of war.

[Spacey]

Here are several of my favourites:

• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -- ? Anon./Aesop
  
• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. --Margaret Mead
  
• Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. --Martin Luther King Jr.
  
• No man or woman, even of the humblest sort, can really be strong, gentle, pure and good without the world being better for it; without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. --Phillips Brooks
  
• Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. --Martin Luther King Jr.
  
• The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence... I cannot remain silent. --Martin Luther King Jr
  
• I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. -- ? Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi/Stephen Grellet