“It's not your job to die for your Pack! It's your job to make the other bastards die for theirs.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
“Your job is not to die for your country. Your job is to get the other poor sonofabitch to die for his country.”
— Ben Bova
Orion Among The Stars (1995)
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Variants:
No man ever won a war by dying for his country. Wars were won by making the other poor bastard die for his.
You don't win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his.
War is not meant to be you dying for your country-it is by making the other bastard die for his.
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This was a reply he gave when Indira Gandhi called him to her chamber and confronted him with the question Are you trying to take over from me? [Jayakar, Pupul Jayakar, Indira Gandhi: A Biography, http://books.google.com/books?id=gm5JGkb2rhkC&pg=PA512, 27 November 1997, Penguin Books India, 978-0-14-011462-1, 215]
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