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1. "You next saw her when the incident occurred?" "That's correct." "Did you try to figure out what was happening?" "You're not military, you don't understand how we work. I'm not supposed to ask questions. I was just following orders." "What orders were those?" "We have a duty to protect civilians." "So there wasn't a specific order that drove your decision?""Now you're nitpicking." "We're being exact, Major. We'd appreciate it if you tried to do the same."
Author: Amie Kaufman

2. "We must distinguish between military and political power.Political power is a psychological relation between those who exercise it and those over whom it is exercised. It gives the former control over certain actions of the latter through the influence which the former exert over the latter's minds. That influence may be exerted through orders, threats, persuasion, or a combination of any of these."
Author: Hans J. Morgenthau

3. "The Mexicans had fired the first shot. But they had done what the American government wanted, according to Colonel Hitchcock, who wrote in his diary, even before those first incidents: I have said from the first that the United States are the aggressors. . . . We have not one particle of right to be here. . . . It looks as if the government sent a small force on purpose to bring on a war, so as to have a pretext for taking California and as much of this country as it chooses, for, whatever becomes of this army, there is no doubt of a war between the United States and Mexico. . . . My heart is not in this business . . . but, as a military man, I am bound to execute orders."
Author: Howard Zinn

4. "I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways."
Author: Kit Reed

5. "You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders"
Author: Woodrow Wilson