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Quotes by Soldier
"You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers."
9
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
9
"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."
9
"Here was this vast machinery of government and they didn't know how it ran, where you put in the gas, where you put in the oil, where you turn the throttle."
9
"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."
9
"I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry."
9
"As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines."
9
"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."
9
"They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government."
8
"It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them."
8
"Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft."
8
"Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body."
8
"The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility."
8
"Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty."
8
"Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own."
8
"A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him."
8
"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."
8
"They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that."
8
"Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment."
8
"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."
8
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
Fear,
8
"If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk."
8
"If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you."
8
"The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure."
8
"This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character."
8
"The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity."
8
"If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking."
7
"The Fuhrer is always right. Every last citizen must say this."
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