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Quotes by Soldier
"Life is a stranger's sojourn a night at an inn."
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"Whatever this is that I am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the ruling part. Throw away thy books; no longer distract thyself: it is not allowed; but as if thou wast now dying, despise the flesh; it is blood and bones and a network, a contexture of nerves, veins, and arteries. See the breath also, what kind of a thing it is, air, and not always the same, but every moment sent out and again sucked in. The third then is the ruling part: consider thus: Thou art an old man; no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer be either dissatisfied with thy present lot, or shrink from the future."
6
"We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first."
6
"If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did."
6
"The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle."
6
"I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school."
6
"Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him."
6
"I think they do have to get it right in Sierra Leone. There has to be something in there now to establish confidence, to stabilize the situation, and then to move to some sort of political negotiations."
6
"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."
6
"Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked."
5
"During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis."
5
"I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God."
5
"Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender."
5
"It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society."
5
"George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between."
Hurt,
5
"I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established."
5
"I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone."
5
"They sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."
5
"You shall hear a good account of me or of my death."
5
"Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side."
War,
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