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“When Tyne dropped into an armchair opposite us his bony knees V'ed out, providing an all-to-clear view of Mr. Happy and the Bong Bongs.”
― Bones Are Forever
― Bones Are Forever
“He asked Ribbentrop if he knew what a ‘yes-man’ was. Yes, said Ribbentrop, in German it means ‘a man who obeys orders and is obedient and loyal’. Unwittingly he had produced an epitaph for Nazi officialdom.”
― The Nuremberg Trial
― The Nuremberg Trial
“Dictators have no peers; only sycophants to do their bidding. That is how it was in Nazi Germany. And so it is wherever autocrats rule in government or in business. Dictators and braggarts cause their own demise, because when they finally are in extremis, they have only their lackeys to call on, while their adversaries attract the best of men.”
― Witness to Nuremberg
― Witness to Nuremberg
“We must make it clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the War, but that they started it.’ (”
― The Nuremberg Trial
― The Nuremberg Trial
“Boys did not go to work on the railroad simply because their fathers did. What fetched them were sights and sounds of moving trains, and above all the whistle of a locomotive. I've heard of the call of the wild, the call of the law, the call of the church. There is also the call of the railroad.”
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