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"Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable."
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Rand Beers
"Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable."
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"I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did."
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Janis Karpinski
"I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did."
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"Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there."
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William Westmoreland
"Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there."
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"Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit."
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Francis Marion
"Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit."
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"Striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm."
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"I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux."
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Zebulon Pike
"I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux."
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"Be content to seem what you really are."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Be content to seem what you really are."
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"There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished."
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Janis Karpinski
"There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished."
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"This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid."
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Russel Honore
"This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid."
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"We had the best food any battlefield ever had."
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William Westmoreland
"We had the best food any battlefield ever had."
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"The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent."
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Barry McCaffrey
"The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent."
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"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."
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John Buford
"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."
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"Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing."
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Robert Morgan
"Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing."
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"The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth."
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Thomas J. Jackson
"The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth."
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"Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky."
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Eddie Slovik
"Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky."
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"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount."
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Omar N. Bradley
"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount."
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"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."
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Horatio Nelson
"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."
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"The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route."
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Zebulon Pike
"The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route."
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"Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men."
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Douglas Bader
"Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men."
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"I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble."
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Eddie Slovik
"I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble."
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"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."
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William Throsby Bridges
"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."
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"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will."
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William Tecumseh Sherman
"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will."
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"If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there."
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James Longstreet
"If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there."
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"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."
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James Longstreet
"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."
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"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."
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Timothy Murphy
"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."
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"The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one we designed for the Cold War, and the Cold War has been over for ten years now."
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Eric Shinseki
"The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one we designed for the Cold War, and the Cold War has been over for ten years now."
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"To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line."
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Nelson A. Miles
"To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line."
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"I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a non-conventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you."
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Hugh Shelton
"I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a non-conventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you."
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"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."
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Robert Morgan
"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."
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"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning."
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Erwin Rommel
"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning."
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"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."
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James Stockdale
"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."
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"It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America."
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John Abizaid
"It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America."
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"General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?"
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John Brown Gordon
"General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?"
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"We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government."
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Timothy Murphy
"We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government."
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"We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation."
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Robert E. Lee
"We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation."
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"Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war."
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Douglas MacArthur
"Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war."
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"Let your light shine as an inspiration to humanity and BE THE REASON someone believes in the goodness of people."
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Germany Kent
"Let your light shine as an inspiration to humanity and BE THE REASON someone believes in the goodness of people."
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"The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia."
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Hideki Tojo
"The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia."
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"Train our children to love God."
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Daniel H. Hill
"Train our children to love God."
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"Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone."
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Horatio Nelson
"Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone."
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"Don't let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust the process. Be still, God has a plan!"
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Germany Kent
"Don't let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust the process. Be still, God has a plan!"
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"I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors."
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Nathan Bedford Forrest
"I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors."
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"During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million."
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Witold Pilecki
"During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million."
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"I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned."
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Hugh Shelton
"I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned."
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"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?"
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John W. Foster
"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?"
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"It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place."
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William Odom
"It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place."
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"It is not the business of generals to shoot one another."
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Arthur Wellesley
"It is not the business of generals to shoot one another."
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"Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be."
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Douglas MacArthur
"Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be."
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"Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast."
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Robert Morgan
"Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast."
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"For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose."
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Marcus Aurelius
"For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose."
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