P. 127. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10937449-the-highest-obligation-of-a-soldier-is-not-to-die
“To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.”
“Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.”
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number9dream (2001)
As quoted in Revolution (2005) by Stephen Court & Aaron White .
“People not only live by symbols, but die by them, as wars of religion and nationalism attest.”
Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 4, “Symbols” (p. 19)
To Gen. Richard Sutherland after their flight over Japanese held territory to reach Australia (17 March 1942), as quoted in MacArthur and the War Against Japan (1944) by Frazier Hunt, p. 71
“Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. ”
“Not one American soldier is going to die on that goddamned beach.”
Source: reaction to Churchill's pitch at the Cairo Conference in November 1943 for the Americans to join in an assault on Rhodes. quoted by Correl, John T. “Churchill’s Southern Strategy.” Air Force Magazine, January 2013 https://www.airforcemag.com/article/0113churchill/
Speech in Ottawa (10 January 1946), published in Eisenhower Speaks : Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches (1948) edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels
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