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475 Soldier Quotes

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Discipline Only Perfect Sort
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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Against Goals High Need
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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Cattle Drive Follow Get
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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Follow Fought Gains Leads
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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Bottom Bounce High Hit
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It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Hero Men Battle
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

Killing Professional Soldiers War.people
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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Leadership Potent Strategy Character
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
War Sweat Peace
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
True Courage Afraid Job
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Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

Figure Generalship Figure Accomplish
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If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.

Saddam Replaced Tomorrow Bad
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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

Unfortunately Regretted Fact Temper
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It's nice to feel that you have a purpose.
Nice Feel Purpose
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To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

Leader Effective Manipulative Figure
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Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory.

Unoccupied Village Opposition Military
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I am an environmentalist, but I'm not a wacko environmentalist. I believe that mankind and nature can live side-by-side for the mutual benefit of both.

Environmentalist Believe Mankind Nature
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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

Hunt Fish Apologize Fishing
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Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate.

Nobody Pin Speculate
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I am the hero of Africa.
Africa Am Hero I Am
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

Achieve Any Country Die
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If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

Everything Happening Knew Meaning
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Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

Am I Am Mistake People
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It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.

Flesh Human I Tried Me
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I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.

Good Interested Islam Muslim
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I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.

Army Born British Enlisted
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I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

Athlete Boxing Champion Great
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I love the Americans. They are my best friends.
American Best Friends I Love
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
Consider Figure Most Most Powerful
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I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

Awaken Done Fear Fill
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In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

After Britain Expectation First
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Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.

America Anyone Auto Detroit
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Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. We would have to march into Washington and sign the treaty in the White House.

Between Break Enough Even
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Even a burglar hesitates to go back for more.
Back Burglar Even Go
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Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.

Aircraft Always Carrier Japan
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I'm against war with the United States. But I am an officer of the Imperial Navy and a subject of His Majesty the Emperor.

Against Am Emperor His
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If we are to have a war with America, we will have no hope of winning unless the U.S. fleet in Hawaiian waters can be destroyed.

America Destroyed Fleet Hawaiian
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I sincerely desire to be appointed Commander in Chief of the air fleet to attack Pearl Harbor so that I may personally command that attack force.

Air Appointed Attack Chief
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Even though there wasn't much damage, it's a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down. It provides a regrettably graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling attack is better than the most skillful defense.

Attack Been Being Better
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If a war breaks out with the United States, the navy will have to put all its strength into interceptive operations, so... massive sea-borne supplies might be momentarily interrupted.

Breaks Interrupted Massive Might
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Although a precise outlook on the international situation is hard for anyone to make, it is needless to say that now the time has come for the Navy, especially the Combined Fleet, to devote itself seriously to war preparations, training, and operational plans with a firm determination that a conflict with the U.S. and Great Britain is inevitable.

Although Anyone Britain Combined
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A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error.

Always Error Even Faith
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To fight the United States is like fighting the whole world. But it has been decided. So I will fight the best I can.

Been Best Decided Fight
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As long as tides of war are in our favor, the United States will never stop fighting. As a consequence, the war will continue for several years, during which materiel will be exhausted, vessels and arms will be damaged, and they can be replaced only with great difficulties.

Arms Consequence Continue Damaged
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The example afforded before the Great War by Germany - which, if only it had exercised forbearance for another five or ten years, would by now be unrivaled in Europe - suggests that the task facing us now is to build up our strength calmly and with circumspection.

Afforded Another Before Build
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I was once the captain of Akagi, and it is with heartfelt regret that I must now order that she be sunk.

Captain Heartfelt Must Now
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Unless more efforts based upon long-range planning are put into military preparations and operations, it will be very hard to win the final victory.

Based Efforts Final Hard
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It is like a disease to think that an invincible status has been achieved after being satisfied with the past successful operations.

Achieved After Been Being
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Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.

Air Anyone Failure First
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I entered the navy with the great ambition of becoming a naval soldier and going to war. Either I die from this festering wound - because I refuse to have my arm amputated - or I recover from it and continue being a soldier. I have a one-in-two chance, and I shall bet my life on it!

Ambition Arm Because Becoming
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