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Quotes by Soldier
"The voice of the people is the voice of humbug."
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"Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged."
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"You are responsible for everything you TWEET and RETWEET."
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"But clearly, this is what this is about. It's about pushing the security bubble out. It's about rooting out every last guy, so that there's not even somebody who can fire a single, solitary RPG round from some little qalat out here."
10
"The priest is the personification of falsehood."
10
"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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"We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences."
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"Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth, your attitude and your day. Don't give anyone that much power over your life."
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"They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech."
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"When you focus on being the best person you can be, you draw the best possible life, love, and opportunities to you."
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"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy."
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"The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."
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"War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers."
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"As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it."
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"The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides."
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"I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation."
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"I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence."
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"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."
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"I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do."
Man,
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"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."
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"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."
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"In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not."
War,
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"We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it."
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"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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"As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone."
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"Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive."
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"That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it."
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"Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could."
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"The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself."
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