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Let the national-guard who can pay for his uniform, and the active citizen whose three francs of direct tax gives him a privilege, own their guns; the stevedore, the market-porter, the lodger, the passive citizen, whose poverty excludes them from voting must have their pikes, and, in these insurrectionary times, a ballot is not worth a good pike wielded by brawny arms.
The French Revolution - Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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He had not the force which a power above communicates to its delegates below; nobody saw behind him the government and the army; his only resource was a national-guard, which either shirked or refused to do its duty, and which often did not exist at all.
The Modern Regime, Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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Zemessardze is an autonomous 10,600-man-strong volunteer reserve organization which performs traditional national-guard duties such as crisis response and support for military operations.
unknown title 2009
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Zemessardze is an autonomous 10,600-man-strong volunteer reserve organization which performs traditional national-guard duties such as crisis response and support for military operations.
unknown title 2009
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In early November Mr Chávez ordered the deployment of 15,000 national-guard troops to border areas.
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Zemessardze is an autonomous 10,600-man-strong volunteer reserve organization which performs traditional national-guard duties such as crisis response and support for military operations.
unknown title 2009
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According to Aporrea, these recordings include the voices of a vice-admiral (Millán Millán), a retired national-guard general (Wilfredo Barroso Herrera), and a brigadier-general of the air force (Eduardo Báez Torrealba), who is heard saying:
Progressive Bloggers 2008
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"zone_info": "huffpost. living/blog; featured-posts = 1; living = 1; style = 1; nickname = darryle-pollack; entry_id = 150117; @ylifestyle = 1; coming-home = 1; family = 1; fort-bliss = 1; iraq = 1; iraq-war = 1; national-guard = 1; returning-soldiers = 1; texas = 1; us-soldiers = 1; veterans = 1; vietnam = 1; war = 1",
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"zone_info": "huffpost. politics/blog; featured-posts = 1; politics = 1; nickname = james-boyce; entry_id = 115920; @ypolitics = 1; iraq = 1; john-mccain = 1; national-guard = 1; veterans-for-america = 1",
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