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They're not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?" "Who else will go?
— Joseph Heller
Rise above principal and do what's right.
— Joseph Heller
I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life.
— Joseph Heller
Sure, there's a catch," Doc Daneeka replied. "Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.
— Joseph Heller
The more loyalty oaths a person signed, the more loyal he was; to Captain Black it was as simple as that, and he had Corporal Kolodny sign hundreds with his name each day so that he could always prove he was more loyal than anyone else.
— Joseph Heller
Sure there's a catch,' Doc Daneeka replied. 'Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.' There
— Joseph Heller
All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.
— Joseph Heller
Don't you see what that means? Now you can take me off combat duty and send me home. They're not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?" "Who else will go?
— Joseph Heller
We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.
— Warren G. Harding
I do not think poor human nature so sorry a piece of workmanship as they would make it out to be; and as far as I have observed, I am fully satisfied that man, if left to himself, would about as readily go right as wrong. It is only this eternally sounding in his ears that it is his duty to go right which makes him go the very reverse. The
— Washington Irving
But be this as it may, it is the imperative and indispensable duty of the Government of the United States to secure to every resident inhabitant the free and independent expression of his opinion by his vote.
— James Buchanan
You can't divorce religious belief and public service ... I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
— Jimmy Carter