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When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.

A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.

I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!

Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.

I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.

Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.

SEALs aren't the only heroes out there. Everyone who puts on a uniform meets that threshold.

If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted you mean to do right.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.

The miseries suffered by our people come more from the shameless exploitation of our countries.

My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.

Petraeus is the finest general I have ever worked for; Holly Petraeus is a great American hero.

The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future.

Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars

War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

When I am in the battlefield, I love it more than my wedding night with the most beautiful of women

Respect is based on Friendship,and friendship is based on love and love is so accidental isn't it ?

America is a mere bully, from one end to the other, and the Bostonians by far the greatest bullies.

We're trying to get the SEAL community back to where we think it should be - quiet professionalism.

To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.

Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September, and even before then it was quite busy.

Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September. And even before then it was quite busy.

They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.

If was, increased by a lack of railways in Russia - for bringing up supplies to our advancing troops.

The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group.

If you know how to shoot, and are quite ready to shoot, the chances are that you won't have to shoot.

If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.

The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad.

The responsibility of a chief is to show solidarity with his people and to be strong with his people.

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.

My goal was to make first lieutenant. I never spent a lot of time worrying about what came after that.

We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.

Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.

If you start focusing on the next job, then you're probably not going to do the one you have very well.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.

I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.

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