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Quotes About Court-martial

All of which is robotic, until one learns how to reprogram and reimprint one's own brain circuits. In most cases, such metaprogramming skill is never acquired. It all goes by in a flash, on mechanical auto-pilot, in zero time. "I just found myself doing it," says the soldier as he is being court-martialed for cowardice or decorated for bravery.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Lastly, I accuse the first court-martial of having violated the law by condemning an accused person on one document kept secret, and I accuse the second court-martial of having, in obedience to orders, covered this illegality by committing in its turn the judicial crime of knowingly acquitting a guilty person.
~ Émile Zola
The preconceived opinion which they brought to the Bench was evidently this: "Dreyfus has been condemned for the crime of treason by a Court-Martial; he is therefore guilty, and we, the Court-Martial, cannot declare him innocent; for we know that to proclaim the guilt of Esterhazy would be to proclaim the innocence of Dreyfus.
~ Émile Zola
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
~ Brendan Behan
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
~ Brendan Behan
Dying's easy. Illyan's drawn features grew distant. How much did he remember of his agonized pleading to Miles for an easy death, so few weeks ago? Living's hard. Let the son of a bitch stand his court-martial. Every last eternal minute of it.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
~ Brendan Behan
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
~ Brendan Behan
I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
~ Thomas Hardy
The Captain General subjected the two conspirators to a fresh court-martial.
~ Laurence Bergreen
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
~ Thomas Hardy
those who had defended the Republic court-martialled and executed en masse for "military rebellion".
~ Helen Graham
those who had defended the Republic were court-martialled and executed en masse for "military rebellion", a punishment that would continue after 1939.
~ Helen Graham
You'll get a fair trial by court martial, and you'll be shot immediately afterwards. The day after tomorrow we shall probably start court-martialling traitors in batches of twenty.
~ Leslie Charteris
I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction. I understand that the various collateral consequences of the court-martial conviction will stay on my record forever. I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the U.S.D.B. as the person I was born to be.
~ Chelsea Manning
In 1846, this career came to an abrupt end when Hayes was court-martialled for the crime of hanging twenty-five Chinese pirates without bothering with the formality of a trial. After quitting in disgrace, he joined the Imperial Chinese Navy and took command of a gunboat.
~ Unknown