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Quotes by Soldier
"Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body."
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"Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment."
29
"You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect."
28
"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."
28
"Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable."
Past,
28
"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship."
27
"If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present."
27
"It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can."
26
"They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that."
26
"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."
26
"I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry."
26
"A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances."
25
"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
25
"In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not."
War,
24
"There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity."
24
"Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value."
24
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
24
"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."
24
"Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped."
24
"The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism."
23
"I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps."
23
"Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good."
23
"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."
23
"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."
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