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John Keegan quotes: Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

John Keegan quotes: Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?

Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?

John Keegan quotes: 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.

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 quotes: We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes.

We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes.

John Keegan quotes: I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.

I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.

John Keegan quotes: Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.

John Keegan quotes: I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.

I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.

John Keegan quotes: The ANZACs, clinging lost and leaderless to the hillsides, began, as the hot afternoon gave way to grey drizzle, to experience their martyrdom.

The ANZACs, clinging lost and leaderless to the hillsides, began, as the hot afternoon gave way to grey drizzle, to experience their martyrdom.

John Keegan quotes: The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

John Keegan quotes: Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.

Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.

John Keegan quotes: If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.

If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.

John Keegan quotes: A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

John Keegan quotes: There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force.

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force.

John Keegan quotes: I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

John Keegan quotes: Some people are more terrorist than others.

Some people are more terrorist than others.

John Keegan quotes: Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?