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Quotes by Soldier
"For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation."
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"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."
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"We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws."
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"It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner."
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"After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault."
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"I think character is permanent, and issues are transient."
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"I believe that presidents up through and including George Bush have known that Americans were left alive and in violation of law, these high officials and certain of their appointed subordinates have continued and perpetrated a cover up of this reality."
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"Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home."
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"The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then."
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"General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle."
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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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"First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot."
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"The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity."
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"You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected."
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"The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides."
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"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."
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"I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example."
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"Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won."
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"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."
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"For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties."
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"I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's."
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"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."
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