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Quotes by Soldier

"Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged."

"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer."

"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."

"We need to go to the niceties of approaching the U. N. and let them have a chance to take it over, but we should set some sort of date and begin to move out and leave it to whoever takes over."

"Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."
Work,

"Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level."


"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."

"During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis."

"We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone."

"We are the transition from one education to the other."

"Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison."


"A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation."

"Every people should be originators of their own destiny."

"But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity."

"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."

"It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy."

"I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes."


"Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky."
Time,

"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."


"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others."

"We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government."

"The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe."

"I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people."

"We all have a responsibility with the words we post on the internet. If you wouldn't want your mother, daughter, sister or friend to read it, don't post it."
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