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My favorite book, is Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. My favorite quote is also from this book.
"Somebody said lets go out and fight for liberty and so they went and got killed without ever once thinking about liberty. And what kind of liberty were they fighting for anyway? How much liberty and whose idea of liberty? Were they fighting for the liberty of eating free ice cream cones all their lives or for the liberty of robbing whoever they please whenever they wanted to or what? You tell a man he can't rob and you take away some of his liberty. You've got to. What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It's just a word like house or table or any other word. A guy says house and he can point to a house and prove it. But a guy says come on let's fight for liberty and he can't show you liberty. He can't prove the thing he's talking about so how the hell can he be telling you to fight for it? No sir, anybody who went out and got into the front line trenches to fight for liberty was a goddam fool and the guy who got him there was a liar." (110-111)
"Somebody said lets go out and fight for liberty and so they went and got killed without ever once thinking about liberty. And what kind of liberty were they fighting for anyway? How much liberty and whose idea of liberty? Were they fighting for the liberty of eating free ice cream cones all their lives or for the liberty of robbing whoever they please whenever they wanted to or what? You tell a man he can't rob and you take away some of his liberty. You've got to. What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It's just a word like house or table or any other word. A guy says house and he can point to a house and prove it. But a guy says come on let's fight for liberty and he can't show you liberty. He can't prove the thing he's talking about so how the hell can he be telling you to fight for it? No sir, anybody who went out and got into the front line trenches to fight for liberty was a goddam fool and the guy who got him there was a liar." (110-111)
