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Quotes by Soldier
"Be moderate in everything, including moderation."
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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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"I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year."
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"In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out."
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"If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me."
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"There was splendid fighting on the part of the division on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. There was no faltering or hesitation. Each man went to work determined to carry anything in reason."
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"Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!"
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"This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail."
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"I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust."
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"It is not the business of generals to shoot one another."
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"Before my troops reached the little city, and before the people of Fredericksburg knew that any part of the Confederate army was near, there was great excitement over the demand for surrender."
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"Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."
Work,
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"Don't settle for living mediocre. Focus on all the positive and embrace it. Ignore the negative and be thankful for every single day."
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"It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people."
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"The throttles could only move very, very slowly, always watching the temperature, always watching. And even in throttling back, you could bust it, even being very careful."
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"I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do."
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"We know darned well that in Bosnia, certain governments and the secretary had said tens of thousands are needed in Srebrenica and those people were never provided."
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"I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes."
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"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others."
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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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"A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect."
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"As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example."
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"Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out."
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