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Quotes by Soldier

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

"In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"That's all I cared about too, was getting it right."

"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."

"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."

"The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."

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

"It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them."

"There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline."

"It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French."

"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."

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

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

"Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging."

"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."

"You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers."

"If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk."

"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."

"National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung."

"On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian."

"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."

"But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section."

"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."
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