Reuters quote of the day, June 14

London, June 14 (Reuters) Following is a notable quote from history.

''It is impossible to give the soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.'' -- US philosopher and author Henry David Thoreau. Charles Robert Jenkins, a former US army sergeant who deserted to North Korea in 1965, returned to the United States for the first time in four decades on June 14, 2005.

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