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We have moved from an age in which government leaders sought to do what was best for the people to one in which the political leadership is convinced it knows what is best for the people, whether they like it or not.

— Ralph Peters Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World (2002)

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We [Americans] choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.

Fighting for the Future: Will America Triumph? (1999)

To those who solemnly swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

The War after Armageddon (2009)

The message of Vietnam is not that Americans will not take casualties; it is that the American people do not want the lives of their sons and daughters wasted.

Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World (2002)

To the flesh-and-blood men who struggled, before we turned them into bronze and marble.

Hell or Richmond (2013)

If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

Fighting for the Future: Will America Triumph? (1999)

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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