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Quotes from There Will Be War — Jerry Pournelle

1933–2017 United States

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To stand on the firing parapet and expose yourself to danger; to stand and fight a thousand miles from home when you’re all alone and outnumbered and probably beaten; to spit on your hands and lower the pike; to stand fast over the body of Leonidas the King; to be rear guard at Kunu-Ri; to stand and be still to the Birkenhead Drill; these are not rational acts. They are often merely necessary.

There Will Be War (1983)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jerry Pournelle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.