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Quotes by Soldier
"The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?"
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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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"I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?"
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"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."
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"Embrace who you are and your divine purpose. Identify the barriers in your life, and develop discipline, courage and the strength to permanently move beyond them, and keep moving forward."
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"If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you."
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"Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost."
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"I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression."
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"He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man."
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"When you focus on being the best person you can be, you draw the best possible life, love, and opportunities to you."
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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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"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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"If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit."
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"A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold."
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"We know that these clashes with Asia and Jewry are necessary for evolution."
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"Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty."
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"The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me."
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"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."
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"The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target."
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"The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government."
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"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."
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"Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there."
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"But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough."
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"The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files."
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"I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe."
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"Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there."
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"That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards."
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"I don't think that the war serves U.S. interests. I think Osama bin Laden's interests and the Iranian interests are very much served by it, and it's becoming a huge drain on our resources both material and political."
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