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Quotes by Soldier
"There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity."
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"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."
57
"You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion."
57
"Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor."
57
"Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value."
56
"What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?"
56
"Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging."
56
"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."
56
"Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities."
56
"If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did."
56
"I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry."
56
"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."
56
"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."
56
"Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good."
55
"Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead."
55
"You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers."
55
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
55
"When you run up against someone else's shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible?No. Then don't ask the impossible. There have to be shameless people in the world. This is one of them. The same for someone vicious or untrustworthy, or with any other defect. Remembering that the whole world class has to exist will make you more tolerant of its members."
55
"But clearly, this is what this is about. It's about pushing the security bubble out. It's about rooting out every last guy, so that there's not even somebody who can fire a single, solitary RPG round from some little qalat out here."
55
"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood."
55
"During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village."
54
"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
54
"I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional."
54
"The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch."
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