09-04-2003, 06:25 PM
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Cracking the Whip
Location: Sexymama's arms...
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Originally posted by vevaphon
"An army of volunteers will always have the advantage over an army of draftees. They have purpose, loyalty, moral, and will.:"
-- paraphrased from R.A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers.
if i had a copy of the novel, i'd have the exact quote.
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Since I don't recall that being said anywhere in ST, I dug out my copy.
Perhaps you were thinking of when Johnny Rico was in OCS:
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You would find it much easier (to restore my eyesight) than to instill moral virtue -- social responsibility -- into a person who doesn't have it, doesn't want it, and resents having the burden thrust on him. That is why we make it so hard to enroll, so easy to resign. Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination -- devotion, loyality, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out. Conscript armies have been tried in the past.
Major Reid, Starship Troopers
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis
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