"The Constitutional Convention debated whether America should even have a standing army. ... They worried that a powerful military could rival civilian government for power in our new country, and of course they worried that having a standing army around would create too much of a temptation to use it."

-- Rachel Maddow

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“I am Congress; I'm president.”
“Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.”
“Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.”
“I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature in the nineteenth century comes close - so exclusively produced by and closely identified with a tiny but powerful ruling elite, the upper-caste, Anglophone upper middle class, and dependent for so long on book buyers and readers elsewhere.”
“All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.”
“Oiâ€™m always noble, sir; itâ€™s in my blood. â€™As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years back. Why?”
“There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.”
“Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.”

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