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I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.


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MARTHA MCSALLY Soldiers don't have a lobby or a political party.
MOSHE KAHLON Soldiers with Kalashnikovs and pickup trucks is not an army, ... To make the Iraqi Army stand on its...
MOHAMMED JASSIM I trust the integrity of the British government and the British soldiers.
EHUD OLMERT The car the British soldiers were in crashed with a truck.
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UNKNOWN We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers wh...
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GERALD GRIFFIN Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separ...
SEAN PENN We will no longer squander the blood of our soldiers fighting other countries' wars or the wealth of...
PAT BUCHANAN Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but eve...
CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH Old soldiers never die; They fade away!
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LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring.
JOHN BOEHNER To the eyes of the American soldiers who drove past, I looked no different from the women around me;...
ARTHUR GOLDEN If I heard or saw something blow up, I was hoping it was my dog and not one of the soldiers.
HOLLIS CRAWFORD O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate, And not the wonders of thy youth relate; How can I see th...
JOSEPH ADDISON A thousand leagues of ocean, a company of kings, You came across the watching world to show how he...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR You led our sons across the haunted flood, Into the Canaan of their high desire-- No milk and ...
AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Back of the boy is Wilson, Pledge of his high degree, Back of the boy is Lincoln, Lincol...
EDMUND VANCE COOKE When the action was over and they were returning with joy, they recognized Nicanor, lying dead, in ...
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ANONYMOUS Terrible he rode alone, With his yemen sword for aid; Ornament it carried none But the n...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!
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UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR An Austrian army awfully arrayed.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR See! There is Jackson standing like a stone wall.
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FRANCIS QUARLES If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks
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"Lord Paen said compliment her,...
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AVIV KOCHAVI The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on t...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ His breast with wounds unnumber'd riven, His back to earth, his face to heaven.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred gr...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust; His soul is with the saints, I trust.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk; He steps right onward, martial in his air, His for...
WILLIAM COWPER The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but fortunately there is not much of it. [...
THOMAS ROBERT DUC D'ISLY BUGEAUD Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal
TUPAC SHAKUR I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.
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ELIE WIESEL They (Soldiers) just had an increase so the forms changed and the Soldiers have to update their form...
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TIM POWELL One of our soldiers went down. Our hearts skipped a beat, but we had to keep playing. The thing he w...
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DIANE KAMP That's the biggest effect the soldiers have. They say.
MICHAEL SCHWARTZ You don't want soldiers carrying a bottle of Listerine into battle.
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CLAY BENNETT All our soldiers are aged 18 to 50.
COLONEL YOD SUK She couldn't wait to be out with the soldiers again.
GREGORY PARRANTO These soldiers were tortured and subjected to torture repeatedly,
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ROBERT BYRD We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I b...
ROBERT CARO If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.
ROBERT ALTMAN Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or gov...
ROBERT KURSON I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That d...
ROBERT FULGHUM I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of an...
ROBERT SCOBLE Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
ROBERT TROUT Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of ...
ROBERT COLLIER I'm the guy who spends 15 minutes staring out of the window wondering what to have for lunch.
ROBERT WEBB Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
ROBERT FROST Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
ROBERT FROST I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the soun...
ROBERT FROST The artist in me cries out for design.
ROBERT FROST The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
ROBERT FROST Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first ta...
ROBERT FROST Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
ROBERT FROST I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
ROBERT FROST The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized societ...
ROBERT FROST We love things we love what they are.
ROBERT FROST Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
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