Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.John Keegan
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Some people are more terrorist than others.
John Keegan
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
It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.
John Keegan
The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.
John Keegan
The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.
John Keegan
It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.
John Keegan
Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?
John Keegan
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Absolute,
Been,
Committed,
Compromise,
Courage,
Devotion,
Done,
Duty,
Go,
Letting,
Loyalty,
Task,
Unrelenting,
Until
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