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Quotes by Soldier
"I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy."
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"It is not the business of generals to shoot one another."
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"As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly."
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"Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there."
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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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"Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time."
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"I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school."
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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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"If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government."
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"I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere."
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"In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement."
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"In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac."
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"I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever even request permission to do that."
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"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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"Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly."
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"It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door."
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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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"Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place."
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"My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible."
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"I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody, and that in a, in an insurgency and a counterinsurgency, that's really the center of gravity."
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"Be moderate in everything, including moderation."
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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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"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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"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."
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"America's trying to do the best for its veterans."
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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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"My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future."
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