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“…a reluctance to recognise that today's safety and comfort were bought fifty years ago by means which today's intelligentsia find unacceptable, and from which they wish to distance themselves.”

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George MacDonald Fraser livre Quartered Safe Out Here

Source: Quartered Safe Out Here (1992), p. xxiii-xxiv.

“For some reason which escapes me, there seems to be a feeling now that we have a moral duty to interfere in foreign disputes, and tell other countries how they should govern themselves, especially if so-called democracy is thought to be in danger.”

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George MacDonald Fraser

The Day of the Pygmies. p. 91-92.
The Light's On At Signpost (2002)

“A Gurkha subaltern whom I met later told me that commanding a platoon of them was like leading a group of perfectly-disciplined ten-year-olds, and I believed him.”

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George MacDonald Fraser livre Quartered Safe Out Here

Source: Quartered Safe Out Here (1992), p. 195.

“That political correctness should have become acceptable in Britain is a glaring symptom of the country's decline.”

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George MacDonald Fraser

The Truth that Dare not Speak its Name. p. 104.
The Light's On At Signpost (2002)

“No one underestimated Jap: he might be a subhuman creature who tortured and starved prisoners of war to death, raped women captives, and used civilians for bayonet practice, but there was no braver soldier in the whole history of war, and if he fought to a finish…”

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George MacDonald Fraser livre Quartered Safe Out Here

Source: Quartered Safe Out Here (1992), p. 141.

“…the standard arm was the most beautiful firearm ever invented, the famous short Lee Enfield……. She's a museum piece now, but I still see her on T. V. newsreels, in the hands of hairy, outlandish men like the Mujahedeen of Afghanistan and capable-looking gentry in North Africa, and I have a feeling that she will be loosing off her ten rounds rapid when the Kalashnikovs and Armalites are forgotten. That's the old reactionary talking: no doubt Agincourt die-hards said the same of the long bow.”

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George MacDonald Fraser livre Quartered Safe Out Here

Source: Quartered Safe Out Here (1992), p. 29-30.

“Another discovery was that the size and importance of an action is no yardstick of its personal unpleasantness. A big operation which commands headlines may be a dawdle for some of those involved, while the little forgotten patrol is a real horror.”

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George MacDonald Fraser livre Quartered Safe Out Here

Source: Quartered Safe Out Here (1992), p. 46.

“One way or another, the question whether Britain remains a free nation or becomes the vassal of a totalitarian Europe will be settled soon, and those who oppose our further integration would do well to remember, and proclaim as widely and as loudly as possible, the unashamed dishonesty that has characterised the pro-European movement from the beginning. Not since Lenin and Hitler cast their obscene spells has there been a political campaign so blatantly deceitful. In 1972 we were assured it was merely a Common Market, and that no political union could be envisaged: it is now shamelessly admitted that this was untrue, that political union was the aim from the start.”

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George MacDonald Fraser

The Europe Fiasco. p. 71.
The Light's On At Signpost (2002)

“Few things infuriate the ordinary citizen more than liberal attitudes to crime and criminals. And not only infuriate, but offend against justice, common sense, and fair play. The ordinary citizen is neither a brute nor a sadist; he is humane (as most liberals are not), he is compassionate when it is called for, leans over backwards to be fair, and is ready to give a second chance. But he knows the difference between right and wrong, and has an instinctive sense of the difference between right and mere legality. He believes that wrongdoing should be punished with appropriate degrees of severity; deep in his understanding lies a feeling that eye for eye and tooth for tooth is not without merit, and that the punishment should fit the crime.”

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George MacDonald Fraser

Crime and Punishment. p. 142.
The Light's On At Signpost (2002)

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George MacDonald Fraser: Citations en anglais

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