Kenneth H Blanchard

"He [the soldier] has to be disciplined when he's afraid or he'll go to pieces. He relies on discipline the way other men rely on sympathy." [ Crossfire, p. 79]

"That's the virtue of religion, of patriotism: they allow us to do evil without feeling guilt." p. 130.

"Most people [do] not seem to hate. It [is] just the few, by murdering and lied who split the rest apart. Rooting in the cave of their own hearts." p. 186.

"The virtue of war is that there's no time for anyone to have a past." p. 203.

"War is simply turning the soil. Peace is each new harvest." p. 412.

"If we are going to tread a mean, we must do it openly, have nothing hidden." p. 408.

 Mike Bond

"I wouldn't want to m ove to a smaller house." On running for the US Presidency

Bono

"Im schwankenden Schiff fällt nur um, wer stille steht, nicht, wer sich bewegt."

"The 'deliverer' was William, Prince of Orange, whom the bankers and Whiggish businessmen of London brought from the Netherlands, in 1688, to overthrow the Stuart aristocrats." p. 13.

"1857: [After the attack on three policemen] the Town Police Force of Belfast .. would not go on duty unless protected by the armed constabulary or the military."

Hugh Hanna: "Our rights arose out of conflict and by conflict they they shall be retained." p. 39.

Henry Cooke, Presbyterian leader in Banner of Ulster church newspaper: "Allow them to stop our preaching in the streets and they will soon stop it in the churches." p. 39. and marching?

"Shipwrights who worked in Edward Harland's shipyard included many who were not natives of Belfast at all, but immigrants from Greenock and Glasgow; they had brought to Ireland not merely their skill as shipbuilders but also a deeply-ingrained Calvinistic antipathy to the Catholic Church." pp. 42-43.

"The Irish Constabulary .. was trained on semi-military lines, its officers were men who had held commissioned rank in the British Army or who had entered the force as cadets, specially selected for their education and class background. No ordinary constable, unless he were a an of outstanding merit, could hope to advance higher than the rank of sergeant of head-constable. In 1867 thus force was renamed the Royal Irish Constabulary, a recognition by Queen Victoria of its success in dealing with the Fenian rising. p. 53." [men Cath, officers Prot?]

Commissioners' (appointed by Lord Lt) report on the 1864 riots in Belfast.
"Belfast is liable to periodic disturbances well known as the Orange anniversaries .. If the celebration of these anniversaries be attended with such risk we might well ask why any party should obstinately adhere to it. In other countries good feeling and good sense have buried in generous oblivion the memory of civil strife such as they commemorate. Why is it otherwise in Ireland? Can neither the discouragement of the powerful and influential nor the adverse opinion of the wise and good induce those who indulge in such vain and mischievous displays to remember the claims of citizenship, of charity, or of civilisation?" p. 87.

1872: "A month later [after the first Orange processions since the repeal of the Party Processions Act banning parades] the Nationalists decided that they would have a procession. They chose to hold it on 15 August, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, better known as Lady Day. This was probably an unwise choice. It stamped the Nationalists of Ulster as Catholic sectarians, which is an image they carry to the present day." p. 89.

1872: "The mobs whom Hanna left behind on Shankill Road turned their wrath against the Catholic families who lived in that part of town. They ordered them to clear our, or suffer the consequences. And the consequences in every case meant the complete destruction of home, furniture and other effects." p. 96.

"Of the 3 000 workmen in the Belfast shipyards at that time [1886], not more than 200 were Catholics. Most of the others were Orangemen who believed that if Ireland got Home Rule the Catholics would persecute the Protestants. This is what Randolf Churchill meant by the 'Orange Card'." p. 121.

"The intervention of the military put an end to what had been a most violent conflict, not between Protestants and Catholics, the traditional antagonists in Belfast, but between the Royal Irish Constabulary and Protestant working people who had been goaded to frenzy by their fear of Home Rule." p. 136.

Hugh Hanna, Belfast Newsletter, 14.06.1886:
"Our safety for every interest that is dear to us lies in the Union existing with the sister kingdom - with our kith and kin across the narrow seas that separate us from our Scottish and English brethren. We shall enter into no political partnership with the apostles of sedition and outrage, in Ireland or anywhere else, and we shall defend ourselves against all domination of such kind.
The government stands before the world branded with atrocity and disposed, if it could, to sacrifice the loyal people of the North and the warmest friends of Britain to the enemies of the Empire.
 The people of the North have effective means of resistance but the time has not yet come to use them." p. 141.

".. there was a good deal of talk by the Unionist Party of an appeal to arms. Now, to set myself right, I may say that I am most strongly Unionist in my views, but at the same time I think that putting forward the idea of appealing to force was exceedingly unwise on the part of respectable people. It was unwise to use such words as they were likely to cause the poorer classes to carry out what they only talked about and threatened." a Belfast JP, p. 172.

"In the many outbreaks of religious turbulence, from the heyday of Henry Cook until the close of the nineteenth century, Belfast laid the foundations of that communal segregation and intolerance that is characteristic even of its modern population." p. 175.

"Northern Ireland's civil rights' problem arose from the presence of the Catholic minority, whom the Unionists were determined to treat as unwanted aliens. That this was their attitude had been made clear by Lord Craigavon when he said that he was proud to be an Orangeman and that the government he led was a Protestant government. He always put his membership in the Orange Order above his responsibilities to Parliament, saying that he was an Orangeman first and an MP afterwards." p. 191.

This attitude [Brookeborough: "Catholics are out to destroy Ulster with all their might and power"] has changed little during fifty years of Unionist rule. In August 1961, for example, Lord Brookeborough told the Orangemen of Fivemiletown that there was room for only one political party in Northern Ireland - and that party was, of course, the Unionist Party. This was only a short time after the Grand Master of all the Orangemen had declared that on no account would the Orange Order allow Catholics to be admitted to the Unionist Party. p. 192.

"Gerrymandering, discrimination in employment, undisguised patronage by Unionist-controlled local authorities in the allocation of jobs and council-built houses and, above all, the dictatorial powers that the Stormont Government has assumed through the Special Powers Act, were among the many abuses which the Civil Rights movement set out to abolish." p. 193.

"Another abuse is the restriction of the local government franchise to ratepayers only. This denies the vote in municipal elections to nearly a quarter of a million adults." [Ended in 1969]. p. 193.

"This [collision at Craigavon Bridge on 05.10.68] marked the beginning of what newspapers in many parts of the world described as the "Derry Bloodbath". A group of young constables attacked Gerry Fit [MP] who was leading the procession. They felled him with their truncheons and beat him as he lay on the ground. Attacking the marchers with the utmost savagery, the RUC spared nobody. They struck out at men, women and children, drove their armoured cars straight towards the crowds and turned their water-cannons on them .. RUC brutality that day in Derry generated the violent social and political disorders that eventually brought down the government of Terrence O'Neill." pp. 195-196.

"The history of riots and civil commotion in the North of Ireland, and especially in Belfast, proves .. that so long as the Protestant Unionists think they have the right to dominate and insult the Catholics there can never be lasting peace. Nor can there be true democracy while the Orange Order and the Unionist Party are organisationally integrated, as they have been since 1886." p. 199.

"Holy War in Belfast"
Andrew Boyd

"People, Ideas, Hardware - in that order."

Col John Boyd, USAF

"A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander."

General Omar Bradley

"He hides great difficulties and doesn't hide it." on Gorbachev.

"Jetzt wächst zusammen, was zusammen gehört." 1989.

 "Der Schüssel ist fruchtbar noch, aus dem das Kroch." (Nazism)

".. der Mensch hat die furchtbare Fähigkeit, sich gleichsam nach einem Belieben gefühllos zu machen, wenn er die für ihn schädlichen Folgen seiner Gefühlsseligkeit entdeckt." [ Dreigroschenroman / Threepenny Opera, p.23]

"A good Communist has many dents in his helmet. And some of them are the work of the enemy."

"The solution
After the uprising of 17 June
The Secretary of the Writers' Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the People
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?"
after June 1953 DDR events

 Bertolt Brecht

"We will not spare our forces in fighting for the victory of Communism."

"When will war end? War was here before man and it will be here after"

Gunner's Mate 3rd Class Jordan Brown,
submitted by Seaman John Williams (USN) RET

"Patriotism is the most abused of all sentiments. In its best sense it expresses an animal instinct of self-preservation. In its worst it is tainted with material interests and such sordid things as money and self-advancement. In the Englishman it manifests itself in a dumb contempt for everything that is not English. The Scot has more practical patriotism. His contempt for foreigners includes the Englishman, but is carefully concealed. His jingoism is confined to cheering Scotland at Twickenham."

"A man of strong and attractive personality, an excellent linguist, and a firm disciplinarian with a real genius for organisation, he ran his Chancery with remarkable efficiency. If a trifle obstinate as becomes an Ulsterman, he served his various chiefs with passionate loyalty." (of "Benji" Bruce, Head of Chancery."

"Few men who have seen anything of the politico-military administration of the war can have any faith left in the "great man" theory. Most of our geniuses die unrewarded, but it is quite certain that they are rarely, if ever, found in the unfertile field of politics or modern warfare."

Memoirs of a British Agent, R H Bruce Lockhart

"Is this a republic which allows people to have a private army outside the ambit of our own law? Is this a republic which would envisage people sitting at the cabinet table with other democratically elected politicians whilst being associated with a private army which could use violence, and reserved for itself the right to use violence, if it wasn’t getting its way?" an Taioseach 31.08.98.

"Bonn ist nicht Weimar" Chairman of the Jewish Council in Germany, 23/2/93 in Israel.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Edmund Burke

"Read my lips. No new taxes." Pres. campaign 1988?

"A line has been drawn in the sand .. If history tells us anything, it is that we must resist aggression or it will destroy us." (1990)
"The battle has been joined. We will not fail."

"Communism didn't fall. It was pushed." Feb 1992

"The Soviet Union didn't just lose the Cold War. Western democracies won it."

In run-up to British General Election: "The worst thing an American President could do would be to interfere in a foreign election. Having said that ..." 3/92.

 On Security Forces in NI: "In my experience they are lovely fellas, just doing a job." RTE Radio 1, 23/11/93