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" Convinced as I am that a government is the murderer of its citizens which sends them to the field uninformed and untaught, where they are to meet men of the same age and strength, mechanized by education and discipline for battle, I can not withhold my... "
Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States - Page 185
by Henry Lee - 1869 - 620 pages
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Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States, Volume 1

Henry Lee - Southern States - 1812 - 444 pages
...avail themselves of the occasional testimony, to produce a general result. Convinced as I am, that a government is the murderer of its , citizens, which...same age and strength, mechanized by education and discipline for battle, I cannot withhold my denunciation of its wickedness and folly; much as I applaud,...
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The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 15

John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - Civilization - 1916 - 488 pages
...after, the memory of this ill-starred experience stirred General Henry Lee to enter in his Memoirs, "A government is the murderer of its citizens which sends...same age and strength, mechanized by education and discipline for battle." It must suffice for the War of 1812 to record that the United States employed...
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Military History of the United States, by Emory Upton. [1st Ed.].

United States. War Department - 1904 - 534 pages
...shall avail themselves of the occasional testimony to produce a great result. Convinced as I am that a government is the murderer of its citizens which sends...same age and strength, mechanized by education and discipline for battle, I can not withhold my denunciation of its wickedness and folly.'' To return...
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The Military Policy of the United States

Emory Upton - United States - 1904 - 538 pages
...shall avail themselves of the occasional testimony to produce a great result. Convinced as I am that a government is the murderer of its citizens which sends...same age and strength, mechanized by education and discipline for battle, I can not withhold my denunciation of its wickedness and folly.* To return to...
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The Making of America, Volume 9

Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Hardy, Charles Higgins - Inventors - 1906 - 512 pages
...shall avail themselves of the occasional testimony to produce a great result. "Convinced as I am that a government is the murderer of its citizens which sends...same age and strength, mechanized by education and discipline for battle, I cannot withhold my denunciation of its wickedness and folly." In 1790, General...
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The Making of America, Volume 9

Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Hardy, Charles Higgins - Inventors - 1906 - 534 pages
...untaught, where they are to meet men of the same age and strength, mechanized by education and discipline for battle, I cannot withhold my denunciation of its wickedness and folly." In 1790, General Harmer was defeated in an attack upon an Indian village near the present city of Fort...
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The United States Army and Organized Militia Today

Frederic Louis Huidekoper - United States - 1911 - 36 pages
...the Revolution, General Richard Henry Lee, the commander of the famous Partisan Legion, wrote: 2 "A government is the murderer of its citizens which sends...same age and strength, mechanized by education and discipline for battle." 1Upton, p. 71. 'Lee's Memoirs, vol. I, p. 186. This book should be returned...
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The World's Work, Volume 21

Walter Hines Page, Arthur Wilson Page - American literature - 1911 - 876 pages
...(after the conclusion of the war), in discussing the rout at Camden, he said: Convinced as I am that a government is the murderer of its citizens which sends...they are to meet men of the same age and strength, mechanicized by education and discipline for battle, I cannot withhold my denunciation of its wickedness...
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Military Policy of the United States

United States. War Department - 1912 - 540 pages
...shall avail themselves of the occasional testimony to produce a great result. Convinced as I am that a government is the murderer of its citizens which sends...same age and strength, mechanized by education and discipline for battle, I can not withhold my denunciation of its wickedness and folly. * To return...
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Report of the 1st-22d Annual Lake Mohonk Conference on ..., Volume 18

Arbitration (International law) - 1912 - 922 pages
...You will remember that Light Horse Harry Lee, of Revolutionary fame, said: "Convinced as I am that a government is the murderer of its citizens which sends them to the field uniformed and untaught, where they are to meet men of the same age and strength, mechanized by education...
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