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Quotes by Soldier
"Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him."
4
"Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that."
Work,
4
"Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students."
4
"Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor."
4
"You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans."
4
"The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective."
4
"It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened."
4
"A military life has ever comported with my inclination."
4
"Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye."
4
"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."
4
"We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing."
4
"I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air."
3
"There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S."
3
"Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose."
3
"If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government."
3
"The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides."
3
"I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere."
3
"I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God."
3
"I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation."
3
"It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society."
3
"I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does."
3
"Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."
3
"And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties."
3
"I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly."
3
"I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established."
3
"I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student."
3
"Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives."
3
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