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  • In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for thedisastrousrise of misplaced powers exists and will persist. 302

    - Dwight D(avid) Eisenhower
      Farewell address to the nation,17  Jan.

  • Igreet you as the advanceguard of the world proletarian army. The hour is not far off when†the German people will turn their weapons againsttheircapitalist exploiters. The sun of the socialist revolution has already risen.

    -Vladimir Ilyich originally Vladimir IlyichUlyanov Lenin
      Speech, Petrograd,16  Apr.

  • They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace Christopher Robin went down with Alice. Alice is marrying one of the guard. 'A soldier's life is terribly hard,' Says Alice.

    - A(lan) A(lexander) Milne
      When We Were VeryYoung,'Buckingham Palace'.

  • I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love.

    -W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
      'An Irish Airman Foresees his Death', l.1.^4. Collected inThe Wild Swans at Coole (1919).

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