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Quotes by Soldier

"But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life."

"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."

"If one of us, any of us, any American is traveling in a town somewhere in America and a medical crisis hits them, for someone who is diabetic or perhaps has heart disease or some other problems, where do we get the records to determine what to do?"

"But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section."

"In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash."

"As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who have struggled with many problems in families, I have seen families ripped apart by so many things that sometimes law has tried to deal with."

"The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them."

"If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't."

"We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."

"But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country."

"Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs."

"These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious."

"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."

"There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people."

"I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream."

"When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says."

"Every people should be originators of their own destiny."

"I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version."

"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."

"The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group."

"This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid."

"Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people."

"I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems."

"Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation."

"Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments."

"I think character is permanent, and issues are transient."

"The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree."
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