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Garry Wills Inspirational Quotes (13)

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Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads - they are not there accidentally. Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
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Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.
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The whole point of free expression is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them to it.
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
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Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.
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Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'
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Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that I was the only 'religious nut' - his term for a believer - in his stable of regular reviewers.
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Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
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It's not healthy for a society if the people hate their own government.
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The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.
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There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose?
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The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.
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The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.
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