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Quotes by Soldier
"Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence."
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"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose."
15
"Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates."
15
"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."
15
"If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future."
15
"I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere."
15
"The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective."
15
"They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech."
15
"War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers."
14
"Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons."
14
"To get a hold on boys you must be their friend."
14
"Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace."
14
"The throttles could only move very, very slowly, always watching the temperature, always watching. And even in throttling back, you could bust it, even being very careful."
14
"Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . ."
14
"I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers."
14
"The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council."
14
"I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for out independence."
14
"The secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters."
14
"Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate."
14
"All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion."
14
"That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it."
14
"I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing."
14
"These clashes are the only evolu-tionary possibility which will enable us one day, now that Fate has given us the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, to create the Germanic Reich."
14
"The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect."
14
"I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do."
14
"The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out."
14
"Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation."
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