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Quotes by Soldier

"A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does."

"National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung."

"I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess."

"We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past."

"If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future."

"6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break:1. Stop stressing. 2. Stop worrying. 3. Give rest to the problems weighing you down. 4. Lighten up. 5. Forgive yourself. 6. Forgive others."

"They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf."

"A military life has ever comported with my inclination."

"Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living."

"Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode."

"What I can do for my country, I am willing to do."

"Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate."


"The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself."

"Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation."

"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."

"With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine."

"The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!"

"I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms."

"Speak with caution. Even if someone forgives harsh words you've spoken, they may be too hurt to ever forget them. Don't leave a legacy of pain and regret of things you never should have said."
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