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Quotes by Soldier
"Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers."
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"I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement."
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"It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else."
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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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"I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected."
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"I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else."
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"There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places."
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"There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship."
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"Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy."
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"Before my troops reached the little city, and before the people of Fredericksburg knew that any part of the Confederate army was near, there was great excitement over the demand for surrender."
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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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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
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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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"During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris."
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"The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment."
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"The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after."
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"Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."
Work,
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"You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England."
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"Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation."
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"But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?"
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"Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose."
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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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"The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all."
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"Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves."
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"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."
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"It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat."
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"I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind."
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