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Quotes by Soldier
"I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected."
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"Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged."
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"If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?"
40
"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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"During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis."
39
"Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace."
39
"The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them."
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"The secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters."
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"Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it."
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"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."
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"Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky."
Time,
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"Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington."
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"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."
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"Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war."
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"Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events."
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"Even though men and women are different in our thinking, we all share the need and desire for compassion, compliments, and companionship."
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"A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself."
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"You want to keep intelligence separate from policy."
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"What you post online speaks VOLUME about who you really are. POST with intention. REPOST with caution."
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"I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned."
Job,
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"Whether or not you could actually increase the size of the force is something that will have to be determined."
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"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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"I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat."
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"Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there."
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"More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor."
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"If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed."
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"The priest is the personification of falsehood."
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"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."
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"Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities."
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