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Quotes by Soldier
"I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone."
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"Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster."
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"My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent."
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"The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play."
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"I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea."
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"It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980."
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"War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
War,
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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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"I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments."
War,
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"I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat."
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"I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for."
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"With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine."
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"I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness."
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"I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't."
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"I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall."
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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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"Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets."
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"As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views."
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"The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious."
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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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"I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms."
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"If it doesn't agree with your spirit let it go."
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"We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past."
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"We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first."
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"It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending."
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