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N. L. Dillinger
Lieutenant Rasczak embodies the ideal qualities of an officer in the M.I., and his men—including Johnnie—look up to him adoringly. To his soldiers, he’s like a distant father or demigod, somewhat aloof in formal situations, but always aware of each and every man on the battlefield. He won’t leave a soldier behind and in fact dies while rescuing an injured private. His example—his willingness to put his body on the line for the good of his men and of the Terran Federation generally—shines out in Johnnie’s mind as the perfect example of what it is to be a citizen
Lieutenant Rasczak Quotes in Starship Troopers
The Starship Troopers quotes below are all either spoken by Lieutenant Rasczak or refer to Lieutenant Rasczak . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 11
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Nevertheless, I had signed up in order to win a vote.
Or had I?
Had I ever cared about voting? No, it was the prestige, the pride, the status…of being a citizen.
Or was it?
I couldn’t remember to save my life why I had signed up.
Anyhow, it wasn’t the process of voting that made a citizen—the Lieutenant had been a citizen in the truest sense of the word, even though he had not lived long enough ever to cast a ballot. He had “voted” every time he made a drop.
And so had I!
I could hear Colonel Dubois in my mind: “Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part…and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.”
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Lieutenant Rasczak Quotes in Starship Troopers
The Starship Troopers quotes below are all either spoken by Lieutenant Rasczak or refer to Lieutenant Rasczak . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 11
Quotes
Nevertheless, I had signed up in order to win a vote.
Or had I?
Had I ever cared about voting? No, it was the prestige, the pride, the status…of being a citizen.
Or was it?
I couldn’t remember to save my life why I had signed up.
Anyhow, it wasn’t the process of voting that made a citizen—the Lieutenant had been a citizen in the truest sense of the word, even though he had not lived long enough ever to cast a ballot. He had “voted” every time he made a drop.
And so had I!
I could hear Colonel Dubois in my mind: “Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part…and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.”
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