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Quotes by Soldier
"It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people."
4
"The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God."
4
"I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point."
4
"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."
4
"To get a hold on boys you must be their friend."
4
"It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending."
4
"Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking."
4
"I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came."
4
"The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages."
4
"It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake."
4
"Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living."
4
"Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace."
4
"If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit."
4
"One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune."
4
"A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold."
4
"Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode."
4
"In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac."
4
"Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound."
Poor,
4
"Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also."
4
"As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who have struggled with many problems in families, I have seen families ripped apart by so many things that sometimes law has tried to deal with."
4
"The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them."
4
"I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars."
4
"Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader."
4
"Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children."
4
"I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you."
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