Robert E. Haebel famous quotes

If any of you get hernias in this tug-of-war against the Army, I'll pay to get them fixed.
-- Robert E. Haebel

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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms....

The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.

But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. 'Might makes right,' and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.

I smoked pot in college and in the Army...