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Quotes by Soldier
"The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."
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"If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking."
48
"I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation."
48
"George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between."
Hurt,
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"But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section."
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"If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races."
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"I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before."
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"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."
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"Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity."
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"Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over the Antietam took place."
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"I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table."
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"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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"If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk."
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"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
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"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."
48
"I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services."
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"I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!"
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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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"Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush."
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"The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective."
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"Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."
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"All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion."
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"The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect."
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"The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out."
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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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"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."
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"Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare."
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