#tanks

Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

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The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#anger #being #brigade #even #fought

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#buildings #dusty #east #fallen #fled

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#buildings #dusty #east #fallen #fled

I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism. ↗

— Albert Speer

#dizzy #grow #i #important #manufactured

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man. ↗

— John Muir

#cathedrals #churches #consecrated #dam #ever