Authors of the words

Dear editor,

I’m writing this letter regarding my article printed in The Korea Times on Dec. 14, 2010 under the Thoughts of The Times column, titled "Young blood in the North." it has been brought to my attention by my friend and priest Father Cotter that perhaps I should have cited the authors of the words that have been used before. Forthwith, I do so now.

“It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general,” (Attributed to Ferdinand Foch). “Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects,” (Tolstoy). “The real war will never get into the books,” (Walt Whitman).

“On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens,” (Humble Representation, addressed to Parliament by Cromwell's soldiers). “Regulations were made to be broken,” (soldiers' saying).

“Even in politics, an evil action has evil consequences. That, I believe, is the law of nature, as precise as any law of physics or chemistry,” (Nehru). “Nations are quite capable of starving every other side of life-education, sanitation, housing, public health, everything that contributes to life, physical, intellectual, moral, and spiritual-in order to maintain their armaments,” (G.L. Dickinson).

“You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destiny,” (FDR). “A nation cannot be kept permanently interred,” (W.R. Jones). “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable,” (JFK).

“With the proper flow of commerce across the borders of all countries it is unnecessary for soldiers to march across those borders,” (Thomas J. Watson _ IBM).

“A state in which the citizens are compelled or actuated by means of a dictator to obey seems to me to be a state of a multitude of ill-cared-for slaves,” (Adapted from Wilhelm von Humboldt).

“It is not titles that reflect honor on men, but men on their titles,” (Machiavelli).

William Roger Jones

Jeju Island