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Quotes by Soldier
"Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity."
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"Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear."
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"When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high."
46
"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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"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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"Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China."
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"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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"If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going."
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"Therefore, once U.S. forces leave, it is almost inevitable that an anti-Western, anti-U.S. regime will arise."
Will,
36
"We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress."
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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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"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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"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
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"I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books."
32
"They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy."
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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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"Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible."
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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."
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"The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country."
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"Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference."
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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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"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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"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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