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Quotes by Soldier

"In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield."

"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."

"Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy."

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

"I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea."

"A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush."
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"I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest."

"We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws."

"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."

"A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising."

"I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems."

"The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree."

"Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood."

"Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it."

"The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary."

"China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan."

"You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation."


"I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to."

"Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty."

"We shall meet again before long to march to new triumphs."

"It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective."

"Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start."

"Use social media for good and lift others up, not tear them down. Stay on the high road. Keep your peace."

"A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect."

"We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance."

"You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does."
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