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You know I have no political ambitions. My job is to command my army and see that it is kept as a first rate instrument. Your job is to look after the country.

— Sam Manekshaw

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There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.

Then I guess Pakistan would have won (the 1971 war).

The status of the field marshal of the country or the equivalent has to be unique for the nation.

Whether an atom bomb is necessary or not, in this world if you want to be recognized, if you don’t want to be kicked about, you have to be powerful both militarily and economically.

It's nonsense that people join the army to serve the country, like the politicians do it only for the sake of the country.

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

Jean de La Bruyère Les Caractères (1688)

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