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Quotes by Soldier
"Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader."
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"Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children."
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"I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you."
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"Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster."
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"We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."
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"Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly."
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"In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested."
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"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."
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"That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it."
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"Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could."
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"We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion."
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"What is good for Germany is right, and everything that harms Germany is wrong."
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"But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action."
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"I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea."
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"The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords."
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"Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over the Antietam took place."
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"When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says."
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"Every people should be originators of their own destiny."
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"We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws."
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"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
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"If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it."
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"The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group."
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"I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat."
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"Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War."
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"And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly."
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"I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?"
Life,
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