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Quotes by Soldier
"Advice to my younger self: 1 Start where you are with what you have. 2 Try not to hurt other people. 3 Take more chances. 4 If you fail, keep trying."
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"The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness."
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"It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me."
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"My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us."
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"Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time."
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"All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them."
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"Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die."
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"Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy."
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"Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that."
Work,
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"The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after."
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"What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat."
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"A fundamental approach to life transformation is using social media for therapy; it forces you to have an opinion, provides intellectual stimulation, increases awareness, boosts self-confidence, and offers the possibility of hope."
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"Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces."
God,
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"We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people."
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"If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government."
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"I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air."
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"The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them."
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"During the whole campaign, from June 27 to July 31, there has been no shirking or hesitation, to tiring on the part of a single man so far as I have seen; the brigade commanders reported none."
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"In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it."
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"If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government."
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"George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between."
Hurt,
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"If one of us, any of us, any American is traveling in a town somewhere in America and a medical crisis hits them, for someone who is diabetic or perhaps has heart disease or some other problems, where do we get the records to determine what to do?"
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"In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash."
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"It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat."
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"The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country."
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"We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded."
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"Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive."
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"In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested."
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