(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.
Tom Clancy
Born: April 12, 1947 Died: October 1, 2013
Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy, Jr. (12 April 1947 – 1 October 2013) was an American novelist. He is best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of his novels have been bestsellers and more than 100 million copies of his books have been sold.
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A wise man knows his limitations.’ And a bold one seizes opportunities.
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.
"You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears." - Winston Churchill
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I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
To a man, professional soldiers despised terrorists, and each would dream about getting them in an even-up-battle; the idea of the Field of Honor had never died for the real professionals. It was the place where the ultimate decision was made on the basis of courage and skill, on the basis of manhood itself, and it was this concept that marked the professional soldier as a romantic, a person who truly believed in the rules.
And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning — and, once decided, best unseen.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is not the job of government to be the national nanny. The average citizen can look after his or her own needs without assistance from somebody who works here in Washington.
The noblest of ideas have always been protected by warriors.
"The media "could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within.
"Diplomacy "was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.
"She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl"
Surviving is much more painful than death.
My life is a very simple life thank you
You can act like a policeman or a soldier, but not both.