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Quotes by Soldier

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

"All the things I've ever wanted to say suddenly I've been bold enough to say them on Social Media."

"Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops."

"Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history."

"A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself."

"I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion."

"I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust."

"Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good."

"Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy."

"We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape."

"My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future."

"Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?"

"I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels."

"Keep expecting and believing that your due season is coming. Declare that the good you have harvested in your life will manifest."

"Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates."


"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."

"At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program."

"When I jerked it out the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the shaft of the arrow when I pulled it out."

"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."

"There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear."

"As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example."

"Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view."

"Points of views that are expressed on Twitter don't intend to offend, but rather defend and open the conversation up to everyone so that no one has to pretend."

"It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me."

"Don't hang out with people who are: Ungrateful, Unhelpful, Unruly, Unkindly, Unloving, Unambitious, Unmotivated or make you feel...Uncomfortable."

"Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time."

"My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic."

"I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving."
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