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Quotes by Soldier
"Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference."
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"Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier."
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"I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry."
38
"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."
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"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship."
37
"A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances."
37
"You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect."
37
"There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity."
37
"My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness."
37
"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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"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."
36
"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."
36
"The best doctors and the best hospitals in America, if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it, it can lead to morbid consequences: Higher mortality."
36
"That's all I cared about too, was getting it right."
36
"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."
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"There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline."
35
"It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French."
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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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"They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that."
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"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."
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"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
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"On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian."
35
"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."
35
"To get a hold on boys you must be their friend."
34
"Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil."
34
"The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone."
34
"Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed."
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"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."
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"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
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"The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."
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"The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood."
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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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