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Quotes by Soldier

"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."

"And occasionally some of the nations that will be partners in this would probably not be, in terms of passing a pure human rights check, have everything going for them that you would like to have."

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

"Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children."


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

"Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there."

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

"Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later."

"Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty."

"There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them."

"It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals."

"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!"

"There is too much negativity in the world. Do your best to make sure you aren't contributing to it."

"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."

"If something is difficult for you to accomplish, do not then think it impossible for any human being; rather, if it is humanly possible and corresponds to human nature, know that it is attainable by you as well."

"Keep expecting and believing that your due season is coming. Declare that the good you have harvested in your life will manifest."

"Hard work works harder than luck!"

"There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement."

"I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed."

"Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth, your attitude and your day. Don't give anyone that much power over your life."

"You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end."

"I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student."

"Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives."

"I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars."


"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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