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Quotes by Soldier

"Confine yourself to the present."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Confine yourself to the present."
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"I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them."
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Curtis Lemay
"I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them."
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"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."
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Omar N. Bradley
"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."
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"He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man."
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Norman Schwarzkopf
"He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man."
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"Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men."
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Miyamoto Musashi
"Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men."
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"Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less."
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Robert E. Lee
"Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less."
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"Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment."
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Robert Baden-Powell
"Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment."
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"I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive."
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Bo Gritz
"I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive."
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"Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable."
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George S. Patton
"Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable."
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"There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain."
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Lord Amherst
"There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain."
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"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship."
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Omar N. Bradley
"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship."
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"The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism."
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Arthur Seyss Inquart
"The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism."
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"Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft."
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Billy Mitchell
"Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft."
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"Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own."
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Chiang Kai-shek
"Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own."
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"There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights."
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Smedley Butler
"There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights."
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"Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value."
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Joseph Brant
"Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value."
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"All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us."
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Heinrich Himmler
"All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us."
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"A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor."
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Xenophon
"A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor."
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"Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China."
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Hideki Tojo
"Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China."
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"War is the province of danger."
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Karl Von Clausewitz
"War is the province of danger."
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"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
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Marcus Aurelius
"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
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"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."
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Robert E. Lee
"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."
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"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken."
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Oliver Cromwell
"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken."
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"If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking."
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William Tecumseh Sherman
"If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking."
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"On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view."
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Hideki Tojo
"On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view."
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"Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body."
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J. F. C. Fuller
"Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body."
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"Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia."
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Daniel H. Hill
"Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia."
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"You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect."
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Miyamoto Musashi
"You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect."
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"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."
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George S. Patton
"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."
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"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."
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George S. Patton
"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."
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"I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart."
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
"I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart."
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"We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy."
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David Hackworth
"We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy."
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"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
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"President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone."
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William Westmoreland
"President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone."
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"There is no substitute for victory."
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Douglas MacArthur
"There is no substitute for victory."
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"If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast."
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William Tecumseh Sherman
"If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast."
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"Americans never quit."
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Douglas MacArthur
"Americans never quit."
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"Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good."
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Bernard Law Montgomery
"Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good."
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"No damn man kills me and lives."
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Nathan Bedford Forrest
"No damn man kills me and lives."
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"In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage."
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Robert Anderson
"In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage."
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"Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree."
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Hideki Tojo
"Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree."
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"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
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William Tecumseh Sherman
"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
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"Being born in a stable does not make one a horse."
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Arthur Wellesley
"Being born in a stable does not make one a horse."
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"I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance."
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Hideki Tojo
"I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance."
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"It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy."
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Philip Sidney
"It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy."
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"Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere."
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Heinrich Himmler
"Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere."
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"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."
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Marcus Aurelius
"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."
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"The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage."
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Christopher Gadsden
"The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage."
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"The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes."
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Karl Von Clausewitz
"The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes."
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"I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed."
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Christopher Gadsden
"I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed."
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