John Keegan

The ANZACs, clinging lost and leaderless to the hillsides, began, as the hot afternoon gave way to grey drizzle, to experience their martyrdom. ↗

— John Keegan

#experience

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues. ↗

— John Keegan

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I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books. ↗

— John Keegan

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I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction. ↗

— John Keegan

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I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university. ↗

— John Keegan

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I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well. ↗

— John Keegan

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Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people. ↗

— John Keegan

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I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it. ↗

— John Keegan

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I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper. ↗

— John Keegan

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There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force. ↗

— John Keegan

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