April 3, 2007 2:47PM 

# NYT Quote of the Day 

By [Jerry Taylor](https://www.cato.org/people/jerry-taylor) 

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> If all of America were more like the Army, it would be a better country.
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> — Robert Wright, “[My Life In the Army](http://select.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/opinion/03wright.html),” *New York Times*, April 3, 2007, p. A23.

I bet you won’t find many founding fathers expressing this sentiment. Well, unless you’re looking at the founding fathers of the Third Reich or Soviet Russia.…

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