“It's nonsense that people join the army to serve the country, like the politicians do it only for the sake of the country.”

—  Sam Manekshaw

Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,

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