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Quotes by Soldier

"Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive."

"In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested."

"We come to beginnings only at the end."

"We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion."

"These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious."

"It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with."

"Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place."

"My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible."

"It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980."

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

"I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version."

"The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions."

"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."

"Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free."

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"To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose."

"Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel."

"It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner."

"Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War."

"I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for."

"I think character is permanent, and issues are transient."

"No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization."

"However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way."

"I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it."

"We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason."

"When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience."

"The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail."
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