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Quotes by Soldier
"The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country."
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"The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill."
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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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"They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy."
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"I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry."
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"Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made."
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"I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps."
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"Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place."
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"War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
War,
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"A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him."
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"You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers."
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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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"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency."
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"I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think."
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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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"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
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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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"It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them."
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"There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity."
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"In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia."
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"They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards."
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"We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war."
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"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."
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"You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals."
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"The Fuhrer is always right. Every last citizen must say this."
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"A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances."
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