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Quotes by Soldier
"Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year."
6
"A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable."
6
"The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy."
6
"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."
6
"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."
6
"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."
6
"If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be."
6
"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."
6
"John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection."
6
"Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns."
6
"Well, let's assume the world is linear. If we required a certain amount of troops per 25,000 population in the Balkans, if the world is not radically different, something of the same extent is going to be needed in Iraq."
6
"China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan."
6
"Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty."
6
"A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them."
6
"After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks."
6
"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."
6
"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."
6
"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."
6
"Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them."
6
"We shall meet again before long to march to new triumphs."
6
"The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious."
6
"At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly."
6
"I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional."
6
"When the vision is clear, the results will appear. Keep your mindset positive as you work your plan, flourish, and always remember why you started."
6
"If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me."
6
"Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach."
6
"Use social media for good and lift others up, not tear them down. Stay on the high road. Keep your peace."
6
"You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does."
6
"Even though men and women are different in our thinking, we all share the need and desire for compassion, compliments, and companionship."
6
"God has already equipped you with the skills you need to achieve your dreams. If you just try, work hard, take control of your destiny, remain true to yourself and believe it is possible, you will have unlimited power to achieve the impossible."
6
"The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else."
6
"You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say."
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