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Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
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(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as commander-in-chief, to use military forces to keep himself in power.
October 26, 1973 Washington Star article entitled Has President Nixon Gone Crazy? -
...controls on behavior shift from the intermediate levels of human experience (social, emotional and religious) to the lower (military and political) or to the upper (ideological). They become the externalized controls of a mature society: weapons, bureaucracies, material rewards, or ideology.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
...empires and civilizations do not collapse because of deficiencies on the military or the political levels.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
...the levels of culture, the aspects of society: military, political, economic, social, emotional, religious, and intellectual. Those are your basic human needs....they are arranged in evolutionary sequence.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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After the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the Obama administration steadfastly refused to say which element of the U.S. military had participated in the assault. Until Vice President Joe Biden decided to talk about it on national television, that is.
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All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.
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An expensive arms race, under cover of the military metaphysic, and in a paranoid atmosphere of fright, is an economically attractive business. To many utopian capitalists, it has become the Business Way of American Life.
The Causes of World War Three (1960) -
As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background.
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Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
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But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.
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By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.
The Power Elite (1956) -
Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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