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Quotes by Soldier
"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."
58
"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."
58
"The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other."
57
"There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent."
57
"Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader."
57
"What is good for Germany is right, and everything that harms Germany is wrong."
57
"The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches."
57
"Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines."
57
"All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can."
57
"An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual."
57
"Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere."
57
"I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems."
57
"I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today. There wasn't a lot of support for those soldiers."
57
"Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty."
57
"I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong."
57
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
57
"There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry."
57
"Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked."
56
"I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation."
56
"Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."
56
"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."
56
"I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before."
56
"I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing."
56
"Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity."
56
"I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest."
56
"However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way."
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