Military and Government
- Chief of Defence Intelligence, head of the UK Defence Intelligence Staff
- Custodial Detention Index, list of U.S. residents compiled by FBI during 1939-1941, later used for Japanese American internment
- Cote d'Ivoire, once known as Ivory Coast, country in West Africa
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Famous quotes containing the words military and/or government:
“His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. The antique arm whined as he reached for another mug. It was a Russian military prosthesis, a seven-function force-feedback manipulator, cased in grubby pink plastic.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe,—”That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)