"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."
— Georges Clemenceau

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Unsourced French: Il suffit d'ajouter "militaire" à un mot pour lui faire perdre sa signification. Ainsi la justice militaire n'est pas la justice, la musique militaire n'est pas la musique. — It suffices to add "military" to a word for it to lose its meaning. Thus military justice is not justice; military music is not music.