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Quote by Herman Melville
A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not

A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty. – Herman Melville

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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world. – Herman Melville

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The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. – Herman Melville

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It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. – Blaise Pascal

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The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. – Jean Cocteau

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Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Obedience is better than sacrifice. – Bible

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