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Quotes by Soldier
"These clashes are the only evolu-tionary possibility which will enable us one day, now that Fate has given us the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, to create the Germanic Reich."
60
"It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation."
60
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
60
"In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia."
60
"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."
60
"The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions."
60
"When the Jews speak of humanity, they mean only the totality of Jews."
60
"Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome."
60
"I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think."
60
"I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them."
60
"The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."
60
"If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking."
59
"The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit."
59
"There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline."
59
"By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out."
59
"We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it."
59
"In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange."
59
"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."
59
"I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table."
59
"The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English."
59
"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
59
"As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi."
59
"It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed."
59
"In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time."
59
"The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective."
59
"If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds."
58
"The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect."
58
"The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group."
58
"Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?"
58
"Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry."
58
"I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election."
58
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