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Quotes by Soldier
"Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives."
3
"We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning."
3
"Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it."
3
"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."
3
"In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not."
War,
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"I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for out independence."
3
"In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash."
3
"The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country."
3
"I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind."
3
"I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government."
3
"As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points."
3
"It has been my aim throughout present operations to afford the greatest amount of protection to life and property interests, and troops have been stationed accordingly."
3
"Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it."
3
"We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace."
3
"We know that these clashes with Asia and Jewry are necessary for evolution."
3
"The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army."
3
"What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted."
God,
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"Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side."
War,
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"In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield."
3
"Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.""
3
"We come to beginnings only at the end."
3
"One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man."
3
"For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation."
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