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Quotes by Soldier

"Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there."

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

"This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid."

"Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation."


"Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky."
Time,

"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount."

"Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year."

"If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be."

"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will."

"I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee."

"Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home."

"One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime."

"We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film."

"We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government."

"Let your light shine as an inspiration to humanity and BE THE REASON someone believes in the goodness of people."

"I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned."
Job,

"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?"

"It is not the business of generals to shoot one another."
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