Talk:Colin Powell

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<< "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return."

   * In answer to the Archbishop of Canterbury's statement that the United States was engaged in "Empire Buidling"

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This page partly refutes that:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-colin-powell.htm

Moved Misatributed to here.[edit]

The following was apparently posted in 2014 unsourced. Does not seem to be relevant & seems out of place, so I've moved it here. Are there any objections?

11mogo (talk)

Misattributed[edit]

  • Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
    • Epigram wrongly attributed to Thucydides kept in the office of General Powell when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.