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Quotes by Soldier
"Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!"
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"Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain."
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"A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost."
33
"Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity."
33
"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."
32
"If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going."
32
"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood."
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"Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear."
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"We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress."
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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."
28
"Therefore, once U.S. forces leave, it is almost inevitable that an anti-Western, anti-U.S. regime will arise."
Will,
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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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"I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books."
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"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
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"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."
25
"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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"Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference."
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"Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible."
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"As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything."
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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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"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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