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Quotes by Soldier

"We know that these clashes with Asia and Jewry are necessary for evolution."

"We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone."

"All things fade and quickly turn to myth."

"All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion."

"Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly."

"In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested."

"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."

"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."

"For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation."

"The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood."

"I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before."

"My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent."

"We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion."

"What is good for Germany is right, and everything that harms Germany is wrong."

"It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door."

"Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison."

"The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government."

"The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches."

"The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords."

"A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end."

"My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible."

"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."

"But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity."

"Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit."

"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."

"We know darned well that in Bosnia, certain governments and the secretary had said tens of thousands are needed in Srebrenica and those people were never provided."

"I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart."

"I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat."

"Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember."
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