"Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either."

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As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.

— Pete Townshend