"Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead."

Army, Country, Heroes, Nation

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"Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead."

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"All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army."

Richard Harding Davis, American Journalist

Army, Night, Sleep

"It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you."

John Dos Passos, American Novelist

Army, Freedom, Joy, Worth

"The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season."

Martin Van Buren, American President

Army, Effect, Law, Military

"But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess."

Stuart Symington, American Businessman

Army, Force, Marines, Navy

"I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving."

Robert E. Lee, American Soldier

Army, Congress

"We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army."

James Talent, American Politician

Army, Defense

"I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long."

Bruce Conner, American Sculptor

Army, College, Horror

"We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?"

Dalton Trumbo, American Novelist

Army,

"Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it."

Ted Morgan, American Writer

Army, Luxury, Madness, Man

"They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army - thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old."

Eddie Slovik, American Soldier

Army, Old, United, Years

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"I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell."

Time

"To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell."

Heaven

"Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all."

Land

"Things at home are crossways, and Betsy and I are out."

Home

"If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again."

Home

"But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late."

Wealth

"Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead."

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