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I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

Atomic Life Feel Warfare
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A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

Pride Simply Smitten Military
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Whatever foreign activists say, we must appreciate our military. When push comes to shove, they are the only folks defending us from terror.

Push Shove Terror Military
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The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

Money Criminal Instead Scholar
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

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You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.

Best Biggest Court Decided
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I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.

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Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives.

Attack Choose Co-Operation Cooperate
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

Roles Society Soldiers Tendency
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So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

Continue Exist Force Long
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In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

Academy Day Marine Memorize
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Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Great Spent Leadership Military
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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.

Form Government Grown Hostile
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Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.

Actually Call Country First
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Beats Conquest Hard Impact
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We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

Absolutely After Country Danger
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The misappropriation of resources provided by the government for weapons means the Nigerian military is unable to beat Boko Haram.

Means Resources Weapons Beat
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We stand united in our pledge to resist terror in Nigeria – not just through military means but also through the power of opportunity and the hope of a better future for all.

Future Better Stand Power
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

Arts Defense Emotional Important
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I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
Inclined Think Military Background
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We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Freedom Hierarchy Caste System
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They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

Amount Any Bloody Intelligence
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Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Away Career Close Duty
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

Airplane Interesting Military Toys
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Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory.

Unoccupied Village Opposition Military
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

Author Business General Guru
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I've do a lot of USO shows and do whatever I can to support the military.

I Can Lot Military Shows
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Unless more efforts based upon long-range planning are put into military preparations and operations, it will be very hard to win the final victory.

Based Efforts Final Hard
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The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

Basic World Problems Susceptible
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We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Acts Because Efficient God
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World's major powers, including China and Russia, don't want to 'finance' American military adventures anymore.

Major-power World China Russia
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Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.
Diplomacy Military Might Music
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I am the custodian of a sacred mandate, freely given, which I cannot surrender unless the people so demand, and it is by virtue of this mandate that I say that the decision of the Federal Military Government to cancel the election of June 12, 1993 is invidious, unpatriotic and capable of causing undue and unnecessary confusion in the country.

Custodian Mandate Sacred Freely
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Let us say goodbye forever to minority rule by the military.
Say Minority Goodbye Military
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Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.

Although Armed Bases Control
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One of the reasons I'm on tour is to meet people. I consider it a reconnaissance. You know, I consider myself like in a military operation. I don't feel like a citizen.

Citizen Consider Feel Know
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When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.

Alive Armed Children Civil
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Military men Dumb Stupid animals
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My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

Apparel Because Emphasis Gays
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With the all-volunteer military, we, as a society, have become disconnected from our armed forces. And our military, like almost everything else in our country, has been outsourced.

Almost Almost Everything Armed Armed Forces
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Military action without politics is like a tree without a root.

Military action Politics Tree Root
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To those that are too young to know, during the coup d'etat against Buhari's vicious & murderous military regime in 1985 it was Dangiwa Umar who effected his arrest in Dodan Barracks & took him into custody

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The era of military rule in Nigeria is forever gone. The era of people all feeding from Government, directly and indirectly is about to end.

The era Military rule Forever gone Feeding
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On Childrens Day in Nigeria, the children that 'march' the best are rewarded. Why don't we drop that military era tradition, and instead reward Children with the best science and engineering projects?

Children day March best Rewarded Drop
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The only thing that anyone has against the military is the determination that you’d not subject yourself to military rule. Once you have that determination, it is as strong as any armour. It’s the people who do not know what democracy is that are afraid.

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Every young man or woman who has any education whatsoever must make it an act of determination, not to accept military rule. They must breathe it, drink it, eat it. That no civilised country accepts military rule. And Nigeria must be a civilised country.

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The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow.

Trouble Military Ambition General
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The National Military Government owes it as a duty to the people of this country to remove the ills which infested the former regime, to restore the faith of our people in their fatherland and its institutions, so that when the time comes for the civilian government to return, a healthy body politic would have emerged, and last vestiges of bitter factionalism removed.

National Military Government Country Former regime
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We spend our meagre resources in maintaining peace and order, often to the advantage of the military industrial complexes in the so-called developed world. The gap between them and us then grows even wider, we become even weaker and create greater conditions for the interference of the developed countries in our domestic affairs.

Spend Meagre Resources Military
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If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

Diplomacy Any chance Work Credible
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