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"There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements."
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William Bligh
"There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements."
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"Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating."
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Karl Von Clausewitz
"Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating."
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"War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means."
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Karl Von Clausewitz
"War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means."
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"Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead."
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Karl Von Clausewitz
"Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead."
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"If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed."
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David Hackworth
"If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed."
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"If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles."
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Karl Von Clausewitz
"If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles."
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"When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there."
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Fritz Sauckel
"When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there."
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"But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them."
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William Odom
"But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them."
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"Politics is the womb in which war develops."
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Karl Von Clausewitz
"Politics is the womb in which war develops."
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"Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult."
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Karl Von Clausewitz
"Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult."
War,
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"I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did."
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Augusto Pinochet
"I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did."
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"If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going."
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Omar Torrijos Herrera
"If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going."
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"The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer."
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Franz Halder
"The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer."
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"National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable."
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Martin Bormann
"National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable."
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"A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost."
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Ferdinand Foch
"A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost."
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"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist."
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Moshe Dayan
"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist."
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"War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means."
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Karl Von Clausewitz
"War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means."
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"That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!"
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David Hackworth
"That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!"
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"My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive."
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Stand Watie
"My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive."
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"War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means."
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Karl Von Clausewitz
"War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means."
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"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
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Karl Von Clausewitz
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
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"Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference."
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Karl Von Clausewitz
"Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference."
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"Sweat saves blood."
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Erwin Rommel
"Sweat saves blood."
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"I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books."
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Omar Torrijos Herrera
"I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books."
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"Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice."
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Moshe Dayan
"Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice."
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"Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil."
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Horatio Nelson
"Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil."
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"Most important, don't do anything you don't want."
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Moshe Dayan
"Most important, don't do anything you don't want."
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"A few honest men are better than numbers."
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Oliver Cromwell
"A few honest men are better than numbers."
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"I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me."
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
"I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me."
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"I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall."
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Calamity Jane
"I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall."
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"We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy."
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David Hackworth
"We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy."
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"The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts."
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Omar N. Bradley
"The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts."
War,
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"Therefore, once U.S. forces leave, it is almost inevitable that an anti-Western, anti-U.S. regime will arise."
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William Odom
"Therefore, once U.S. forces leave, it is almost inevitable that an anti-Western, anti-U.S. regime will arise."
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"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
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"Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value."
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Joseph Brant
"Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value."
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"A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor."
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Xenophon
"A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor."
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"War is the province of danger."
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Karl Von Clausewitz
"War is the province of danger."
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"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."
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Omar N. Bradley
"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."
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"The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism."
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Arthur Seyss Inquart
"The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism."
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"You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect."
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Miyamoto Musashi
"You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect."
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"It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy."
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Philip Sidney
"It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy."
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"The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage."
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Christopher Gadsden
"The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage."
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"I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed."
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Christopher Gadsden
"I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed."
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"Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier."
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Curtis Lemay
"Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier."
War,
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"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
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Marcus Aurelius
"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
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"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."
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Marcus Aurelius
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."
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"Confine yourself to the present."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Confine yourself to the present."
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"Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men."
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Miyamoto Musashi
"Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men."
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"Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less."
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Robert E. Lee
"Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less."
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"No damn man kills me and lives."
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Nathan Bedford Forrest
"No damn man kills me and lives."
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