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Quotes by Soldier

"If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers."
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Horatio Nelson
"If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers."
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"Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day."
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Hugh Shelton
"Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day."
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"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."
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Nelson A. Miles
"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."
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"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."
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Hugh Shelton
"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."
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"What I can do for my country, I am willing to do."
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Christopher Gadsden
"What I can do for my country, I am willing to do."
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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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Lord Mountbatten
"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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"The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself."
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Robert Baden-Powell
"The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself."
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"Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there."
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William Westmoreland
"Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there."
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"I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux."
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Zebulon Pike
"I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux."
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"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."
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Marcus Aurelius
"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."
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"Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later."
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Robert Morgan
"Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later."
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"A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson."
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James Longstreet
"A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson."
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"Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again."
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Joshua Chamberlain
"Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again."
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"If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there."
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James Longstreet
"If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there."
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"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
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Isoroku Yamamoto
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
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"Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie."
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David Hackworth
"Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie."
War,
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"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."
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Timothy Murphy
"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."
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"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."
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William Tecumseh Sherman
"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."
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"It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals."
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Julius Streicher
"It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals."
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"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!"
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George S. Patton
"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!"
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"The standards to get in are very high. We don't want to lower those standards."
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Hugh Shelton
"The standards to get in are very high. We don't want to lower those standards."
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"In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory."
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Isoroku Yamamoto
"In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory."
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"There is too much negativity in the world. Do your best to make sure you aren't contributing to it."
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Germany Kent
"There is too much negativity in the world. Do your best to make sure you aren't contributing to it."
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"Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?"
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James Longstreet
"Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?"
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"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."
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Horace Porter
"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."
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"Don't let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust the process. Be still, God has a plan!"
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Germany Kent
"Don't let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust the process. Be still, God has a plan!"
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"I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors."
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Nathan Bedford Forrest
"I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors."
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"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory."
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Douglas MacArthur
"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory."
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"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."
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Marcus Aurelius
"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."
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"Keep expecting and believing that your due season is coming. Declare that the good you have harvested in your life will manifest."
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Germany Kent
"Keep expecting and believing that your due season is coming. Declare that the good you have harvested in your life will manifest."
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"Hard work works harder than luck!"
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Germany Kent
"Hard work works harder than luck!"
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"There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement."
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Arthur Phillip
"There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement."
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"I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed."
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Janis Karpinski
"I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed."
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"An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army."
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William Tecumseh Sherman
"An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army."
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"After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life."
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Moshe Dayan
"After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life."
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"You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long."
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Marcus Aurelius
"You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long."
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"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."
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Germany Kent
"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."
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"In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out."
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William Tecumseh Sherman
"In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out."
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"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."
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George Armstrong Custer
"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."
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"If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting."
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Horatio Nelson
"If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting."
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"My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive."
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Horatio Nelson
"My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive."
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"I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student."
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William Westmoreland
"I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student."
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"Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives."
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William Throsby Bridges
"Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives."
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"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."
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Xenophon
"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."
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"A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was."
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Zebulon Pike
"A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was."
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"I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis."
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Paul von Hindenburg
"I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis."
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"I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars."
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Joshua Chamberlain
"I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars."
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"Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp."
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R. Lee Ermey
"Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp."
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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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Robert Gould Shaw
"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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"No one ever complains about a speech being too short!"
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Ira Hayes
"No one ever complains about a speech being too short!"
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