"Any man who has been given the honor of being promoted to general and who says, "I will protect another general who protects Communists," is not fit to wear that uniform, general."

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Source : Remark to Gen. Ralph Zwicker during the Army investigations (18 February 1954), as quoted in "A Conspiracy So Immense" by David M. Oshinsky, 2005.

Joseph McCarthy

#Men Quotes #Honor Quotes #Uniforms Quotes

“Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.”
“Growing into your future ... requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is.”
“Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.”
“The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.”
“My mom was my English teacher in high school. So to be able to bend the rules and be the class clown and get to take on my religion, my mom, and my town all at the same time was glorious. I think the desire to be funny was a mixture of wanting to be liked but also wanting to throw your elbows a bit. If you're cracking a joke in school, it's sort of anti-authority, but it's in the nicest, "Please like me!" way.”
“Surely if He would not spare His own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery, it can never be imagined that ever He should, after this, deny or withhold from His people, for whose sakes all this was suffered, any mercies, any comforts, any privilege, spiritual or temporal, which is good for them.”
“There is no such thing as a good nuclear weapons system. There is no way to achieve, in the sound sense, national security through nuclear weapons.”
“When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.”

Source : "Shred on Arrival". Guitar World, November 1993.

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