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• The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make…
• I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I…
• Visually Agincourt is a pre-Raphaelite, perhaps better a Medici Gallery print battle - a composition of strong verticals and horizontals and a…
• Of whatever class or nation, however, all successful participants in the repetitive and unrelenting stress of aerial fighting came eventually to display…
• The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all…
• Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.
• Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.
• I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.
• I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put…
• I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.
• I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing…
• I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a…

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