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Quotes by Soldier

"The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution."

"I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'."

"If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't."

"All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can."

"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."

"I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody, and that in a, in an insurgency and a counterinsurgency, that's really the center of gravity."

"The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it."

"General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle."

"This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail."

"America's trying to do the best for its veterans."

"We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not."

"I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all."

"I hope no one will think of... sending me to Pearl Harbor."

"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer."

"Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated."

"Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil."

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

"The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people."

"You see it as me going back. I see it as me staying on track."

"I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization."

"You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did."
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