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475 Soldier Quotes

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

Pen Sword Obvious Encounter
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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Result Surprise People Thing
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A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

Pride Simply Smitten Military
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Love Enjoy Privilege Precious
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I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.

Proud Single Person Death
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Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Course Star Ship Light
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We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor.

Live Injury Best Matter
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The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

War Receive Position Enemy
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Better Trust Dark Sunshine
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The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

Dangerous Failure Recognize Error
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The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

Conquer Victory Will Condition
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You cannot run faster than a bullet

Run Faster Bullet You
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When Allah decides a matter, it is done.

Allah Decides Matter Done
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

Ethical Giants Infants Know
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

Adolescent Being Danger Humanity
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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bravery Capacity Death Even
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This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Act Acting Battle Circumstances
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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
Atomic Certain Make Never
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I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

Best Convinced General Opinions
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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Continue Develop May Our
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

Dead Fail Guilt Prevent
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

Designed Ever Intangible Leadership
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
Atom Grasped Mount Mystery
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In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.

Black Definitely Integrated Officers
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He who stops being better stops being good.
Being Better Good He
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

Call Captain Else Fights
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
Deceive Integrity May Never
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Nature can do more than physicians.
More Nature Physicians Than
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
Going He High Knows
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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.

Cheering Going Hanged Much
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Been Flock Glad Government
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

Choosing Faithfully Men Notice
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If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

Battles Enemy Fear Hundred
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Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

Beloved Children Death Deepest
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To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Battles Breaking Conquer Consists
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Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
Attack Enemy Importance Strategy
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All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

Conquer Evolved Men None
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The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

Advances Country Disgrace Fame
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Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Director Even Extremely Fate
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A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.
Benevolent Commander Fame Good
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He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

Fight He Knows Who
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Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

Complete Doubt Earth Enemy
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If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
Believe Enemy Far Him
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Quickness is the essence of the war.

Essence Quickness War Smart
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There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

Instance Nation Prolonged Warfare
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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

Beyond Defeat Defeating Enemy
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Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

After Afterwards Battle Been
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The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

Battle Before Beforehand Calculations
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Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Achievements Conquer Enemy Enlightened
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Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

Arrogance Encourage His Inferiority
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