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Quotes by Soldier

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."
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Ferdinand Foch
"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."
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"It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth."
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R. Lee Ermey
"It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth."
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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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"As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers."
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Daniel H. Hill
"As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers."
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"In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself."
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John Abizaid
"In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself."
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"Americans never quit."
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Douglas MacArthur
"Americans never quit."
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"In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine."
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Erwin Rommel
"In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine."
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"It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions."
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Moshe Dayan
"It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions."
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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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"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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"My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack."
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Ferdinand Foch
"My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack."
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"I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall."
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Calamity Jane
"I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall."
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"And freedom is what America means to the world."
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Audie Murphy
"And freedom is what America means to the world."
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"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
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Marcus Aurelius
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
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"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."
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Timothy Murphy
"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."
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"That's all I cared about too, was getting it right."
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R. Lee Ermey
"That's all I cared about too, was getting it right."
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"For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer."
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Xenophon
"For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer."
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"Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole."
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Bernard Law Montgomery
"Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole."
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"I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production."
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Adolf Galland
"I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production."
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"The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."
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Arthur Wellesley
"The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."
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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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"It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them."
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Julius Streicher
"It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them."
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"It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign."
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William Westmoreland
"It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign."
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"There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline."
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George S. Patton
"There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline."
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"It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French."
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Heinz Guderian
"It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French."
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"If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races."
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Nelson A. Miles
"If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races."
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"There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory."
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Francis Drake
"There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory."
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"We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift."
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Janis Karpinski
"We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift."
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"But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power."
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Joshua Chamberlain
"But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power."
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"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge."
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Marcus Aurelius
"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge."
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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 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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"Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live."
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Douglas MacArthur
"Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live."
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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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"Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging."
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Kenneth H. Cooper
"Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging."
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"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
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George S. Patton
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
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"Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control."
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Janis Karpinski
"Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control."
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"I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity."
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Lord Mountbatten
"I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity."
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"Now God be praised, I will die in peace."
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James Wolfe
"Now God be praised, I will die in peace."
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"You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers."
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James Wolfe
"You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers."
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"If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk."
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Robert Baden-Powell
"If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk."
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"That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now."
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Curtis Lemay
"That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now."
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"National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung."
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Alfred Rosenberg
"National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung."
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"On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian."
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Zebulon Pike
"On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian."
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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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"There is no substitute for victory."
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Douglas MacArthur
"There is no substitute for victory."
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"Perhaps we shall also have to hold in check other coloured peoples who will soon be in their certain prime, and thus preserve the world, which is the world of our blood, of our children and of our grandchildren."
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Heinrich Himmler
"Perhaps we shall also have to hold in check other coloured peoples who will soon be in their certain prime, and thus preserve the world, which is the world of our blood, of our children and of our grandchildren."
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"But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section."
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Daniel H. Hill
"But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section."
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"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."
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John Berry
"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."
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