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Quotes by Soldier

"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."

"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."

"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."

"Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment."

"Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable."
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"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship."

"The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism."

"Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft."

"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."

"Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value."

"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."

"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."

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."

"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."

"If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking."

"Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body."

"You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect."

"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."

"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."

"Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good."

"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."

"It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy."

"Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere."

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

"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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