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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious.

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Military, Army, Men

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Military, Believe, Army
Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 2

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Military, Men, Elderly
"Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1917.

Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Business, Military, Army

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