madmike
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While the first 14 chapters posted at baen.com are introductory, from the chapter headings I think it is obvious where my politics lie and what the book is about:
Chapter 1
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Chapter 2
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."
-Anatole France
Chapter 3
"If a man neglects to enforce his rights, he cannot complain if, after a while, the law follows his example."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
Chapter 4
"And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him
But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you…"
-Leviticus 19:33-34
Chapter 5
"I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces-with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way the government sticks its nose into everything, now."
-Robert A. Heinlein, as quoted by J. Neil Schulman in The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana
Chapter 6
"Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly."
-Desiderius Erasmus
Chapter 7
"In vino, veritas."
-Pliny the Younger
Chapter 8
"The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility."
-Admiral Sir John A. Fisher
Chapter 9
"Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer."
-Ludwig Von Mises
Chapter 10
"Prostitution involves sex and free enterprise. Which of these are you opposed to?"
-Joseph A. Hauptman
Chapter 11
"There are those who don't understand military rituals. Some even ridicule them. I feel pity for those people."
-Sergeant Mel Butler, US Army
Chapter 12
"Great things are done when men and mountains meet."
-William Blake
Chapter 13
"You never hear anyone say, 'Yeah, but it's a dry cold.'"
-Charles A. Budreau
Chapter 14
"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
"Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again, too. Who decides?"
-Robert A. Heinlein, in Time Enough for Love
Chapter 15
"Back to the Army again, sergeant,
Back to the army again.
'Ow did I learn to do right-about-turn?
I'm back to the Army again."
-Rudyard Kipling, "Back to the Army Again"
Chapter 16
"Both sides think they are about to lose. They are both correct."
-Old military proverb
Chapter 17
"Parachute's not deployed
And ground's getting depressingly near.
Life, I love you so much
But you don't care for me, old bitch!"
-"Life, I Love You." A Russian skydivers' folk song
Chapter 18
"My logisticians are a humorless lot...they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay."
-Alexander of Macedonia
Chapter 19
"Human nature is bad. Good is a human product...A warped piece of wood must be steamed and forced before it is made straight; a metal blade must be put to the whetstone before it becomes sharp. Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles."
-Sun Tzu
Chapter 20
"Knavery and flattery are blood relations."
-Abraham Lincoln
Chapter 21
"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war."
Old Military Proverb
Chapter 22
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
-Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus"
Chapter 23
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
-Thomas Paine
Chapter 24
"When constabulary duty's to be done
A policeman's lot is not a happy one."
-William S. Gilbert, The Pirates of Penzance
Chapter 25
"An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself."
-Sir Henry Wotton
Chapter 26
"...the most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win."
-Robert A. Heinlein, "The Happy Days Ahead" in Expanded Universe
Chapter 27
"People in large masses may as well be sheep. Their collective intelligence drops to that of the weakest-minded member of the group. They bleat, they panic and are easily herded to safety, or to the slaughter."
-Alan Gunn
Chapter 28
"You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics."
-General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chapter 29
"An important difference between a military operation and a surgical operation is that the patient is not tied down. But it is a common fault of generalship to assume that he is."
-Captain Sir Basil H. Liddell Hart
Chapter 30
"Molon labe!" ("Come and get them!")
-King Leonidas of Sparta, when asked to lay down his force's arms.
Chapter 31
"He who is skilled in attack flashes forth from the topmost heights of heaven, making it impossible for the enemy to guard against him. This being so, the places that I shall attack are precisely those that the enemy cannot defend.... He who is skilled in defense hides in the most secret recesses of the earth, making it impossible for the enemy to estimate his whereabouts. This being so, the places that I shall hold are precisely those that the enemy cannot attack."
-Chang Yu (after Sun Tzu)
Chapter 32
"The limitation of tyrants is the endurance of those they oppose."
-Frederick Douglass
Chapter 33
"Our troops advanced today without losing a foot of ground."
-Alleged communique during the Spanish Civil War
Chapter 34
"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
-Plutarch
Chapter 35
"Mundus Vult Decipi."
-James Branch Cabell
Chapter 36
"All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself."
-Adolf Hitler
Chapter 37
"There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Chapter 38
"Laws are silent in time of war."
-Cicero
Chapter 39
"The enemy of my friend, he is my enemy. The friend of my enemy, he is my enemy. But the enemy of my enemy, he is my friend."
-Arab Proverb
Chapter 40
"Killing the enemy's courage is as vital as killing his troops."
-Carl von Clausewitz
Chapter 41
"When strong, display weakness; when weak, feign strength. If your target is nearby, make it appear to be distant. Only thus will you achieve your objectives."
-Sun Tzu
Chapter 42
"Our archers are so numerous," said the envoy, "that the flight of their arrows darkens the Sun."
"So much the better," replied Leonidas, "for we shall fight them in the shade."
Chapter 43
"All warfare is based on deception."
-Sun Tzu
Chapter 44
"When you have secured an area, don't forget to tell the enemy."
-Ancient military proverb
Chapter 45
"It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish."
-Thomas Szasz
Chapter 46
"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage..."
-William Shakespeare, King Henry V
Chapter 47
"War does not determine who is right, but who is left."
-Old Military Proverb
Chapter 48
""It doesn't require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires to people's minds."
-Samuel Adams
Chapter 49
"If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with
tears, gold were less prized than Grief."
-Sophocles
Chapter 50
"Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that."
-William Shakespeare, King Lear
Chapter 51
"Home is not where you live, but where they understand you."
-Christian Morgenstern
Chapter 52
"Revenge is like a margarita: salty, with a twist of lime."
-Leon Jester
Chapter 53
"The exquisite gut-wrenching beautiful painful joyful sorrow I feel when I look at the ways of my people makes me want to soar like an eagle, or kill myself, depending upon what day it is."
-Michael James
Chapter 54
"Go Stranger,
and to the Spartans tell,
that here obedient
to their laws
we fell."
-Simonides
Epilogue
"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it."
-General Robert E. Lee
Chapter 1
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Chapter 2
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."
-Anatole France
Chapter 3
"If a man neglects to enforce his rights, he cannot complain if, after a while, the law follows his example."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
Chapter 4
"And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him
But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you…"
-Leviticus 19:33-34
Chapter 5
"I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces-with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way the government sticks its nose into everything, now."
-Robert A. Heinlein, as quoted by J. Neil Schulman in The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana
Chapter 6
"Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly."
-Desiderius Erasmus
Chapter 7
"In vino, veritas."
-Pliny the Younger
Chapter 8
"The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility."
-Admiral Sir John A. Fisher
Chapter 9
"Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer."
-Ludwig Von Mises
Chapter 10
"Prostitution involves sex and free enterprise. Which of these are you opposed to?"
-Joseph A. Hauptman
Chapter 11
"There are those who don't understand military rituals. Some even ridicule them. I feel pity for those people."
-Sergeant Mel Butler, US Army
Chapter 12
"Great things are done when men and mountains meet."
-William Blake
Chapter 13
"You never hear anyone say, 'Yeah, but it's a dry cold.'"
-Charles A. Budreau
Chapter 14
"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
"Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again, too. Who decides?"
-Robert A. Heinlein, in Time Enough for Love
Chapter 15
"Back to the Army again, sergeant,
Back to the army again.
'Ow did I learn to do right-about-turn?
I'm back to the Army again."
-Rudyard Kipling, "Back to the Army Again"
Chapter 16
"Both sides think they are about to lose. They are both correct."
-Old military proverb
Chapter 17
"Parachute's not deployed
And ground's getting depressingly near.
Life, I love you so much
But you don't care for me, old bitch!"
-"Life, I Love You." A Russian skydivers' folk song
Chapter 18
"My logisticians are a humorless lot...they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay."
-Alexander of Macedonia
Chapter 19
"Human nature is bad. Good is a human product...A warped piece of wood must be steamed and forced before it is made straight; a metal blade must be put to the whetstone before it becomes sharp. Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles."
-Sun Tzu
Chapter 20
"Knavery and flattery are blood relations."
-Abraham Lincoln
Chapter 21
"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war."
Old Military Proverb
Chapter 22
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
-Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus"
Chapter 23
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
-Thomas Paine
Chapter 24
"When constabulary duty's to be done
A policeman's lot is not a happy one."
-William S. Gilbert, The Pirates of Penzance
Chapter 25
"An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself."
-Sir Henry Wotton
Chapter 26
"...the most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win."
-Robert A. Heinlein, "The Happy Days Ahead" in Expanded Universe
Chapter 27
"People in large masses may as well be sheep. Their collective intelligence drops to that of the weakest-minded member of the group. They bleat, they panic and are easily herded to safety, or to the slaughter."
-Alan Gunn
Chapter 28
"You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics."
-General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chapter 29
"An important difference between a military operation and a surgical operation is that the patient is not tied down. But it is a common fault of generalship to assume that he is."
-Captain Sir Basil H. Liddell Hart
Chapter 30
"Molon labe!" ("Come and get them!")
-King Leonidas of Sparta, when asked to lay down his force's arms.
Chapter 31
"He who is skilled in attack flashes forth from the topmost heights of heaven, making it impossible for the enemy to guard against him. This being so, the places that I shall attack are precisely those that the enemy cannot defend.... He who is skilled in defense hides in the most secret recesses of the earth, making it impossible for the enemy to estimate his whereabouts. This being so, the places that I shall hold are precisely those that the enemy cannot attack."
-Chang Yu (after Sun Tzu)
Chapter 32
"The limitation of tyrants is the endurance of those they oppose."
-Frederick Douglass
Chapter 33
"Our troops advanced today without losing a foot of ground."
-Alleged communique during the Spanish Civil War
Chapter 34
"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
-Plutarch
Chapter 35
"Mundus Vult Decipi."
-James Branch Cabell
Chapter 36
"All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself."
-Adolf Hitler
Chapter 37
"There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Chapter 38
"Laws are silent in time of war."
-Cicero
Chapter 39
"The enemy of my friend, he is my enemy. The friend of my enemy, he is my enemy. But the enemy of my enemy, he is my friend."
-Arab Proverb
Chapter 40
"Killing the enemy's courage is as vital as killing his troops."
-Carl von Clausewitz
Chapter 41
"When strong, display weakness; when weak, feign strength. If your target is nearby, make it appear to be distant. Only thus will you achieve your objectives."
-Sun Tzu
Chapter 42
"Our archers are so numerous," said the envoy, "that the flight of their arrows darkens the Sun."
"So much the better," replied Leonidas, "for we shall fight them in the shade."
Chapter 43
"All warfare is based on deception."
-Sun Tzu
Chapter 44
"When you have secured an area, don't forget to tell the enemy."
-Ancient military proverb
Chapter 45
"It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish."
-Thomas Szasz
Chapter 46
"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage..."
-William Shakespeare, King Henry V
Chapter 47
"War does not determine who is right, but who is left."
-Old Military Proverb
Chapter 48
""It doesn't require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires to people's minds."
-Samuel Adams
Chapter 49
"If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with
tears, gold were less prized than Grief."
-Sophocles
Chapter 50
"Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that."
-William Shakespeare, King Lear
Chapter 51
"Home is not where you live, but where they understand you."
-Christian Morgenstern
Chapter 52
"Revenge is like a margarita: salty, with a twist of lime."
-Leon Jester
Chapter 53
"The exquisite gut-wrenching beautiful painful joyful sorrow I feel when I look at the ways of my people makes me want to soar like an eagle, or kill myself, depending upon what day it is."
-Michael James
Chapter 54
"Go Stranger,
and to the Spartans tell,
that here obedient
to their laws
we fell."
-Simonides
Epilogue
"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it."
-General Robert E. Lee
