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I shall endeavour to discharge my duty to society, considering myself only as the citizen, moved by the melancholy necessity of taking up arms for the public safety.
Richard Montgomery
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Whatever mourns when many leave these shores: Whatever shares The eternal reciprocity of tears.
Wilfred Owen
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Plant your lands and reap; these be your best gold fields, for all must eat while they live.
Luís María Peralta
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I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; tho I am sure there was no man born marked of God above another, for none comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.
Richard Rumbold
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The conscience is the best and most impartial judge that a righteous man has.
José de San Martín
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No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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Praise be to the Lord, my rock, who trains my fingers for battle and my hands for war.
Ricardo Sanchez
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Prince Asaka had joined the army only about ten days before its entry into Nanking and in view of the short time he was connected with this army I do not think he can be held responsible. I would say that the Division Commanders are the responsible parties.
Iwane Matsui
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It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy.
Yoshijirō Umezu
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If there were mistakes, there were mistakes. But a man has to have a line of work, no?
Klaus Barbie
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Look. What happened, that was just business. Personal betrayal I can understand. But never betrayal of one's people you serve, or your country.
Nguyen Khanh
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I stay right here and fight it out or die in the attempt.
Alonzo Cushing
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Once you have acquired the skills, you must test them on an opponent, but in no way should you consider victory or submission to be a cause for shame or pride. Rather, you ought to think, "By what means did I defeat him?" Or, "By what means could have I defeated him?" Then you exert and test yourself for a while.
Qi Jiguang
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The poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest he.
Thomas Rainsborough
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A message came on the wireless for me. It said: 'spread alarm and despondency'. So the time had come, I thought, Eighth Army was taking the offensive. The date was, I think, May 18th, 1942.
Vladimir Peniakoff
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With what a perfect hatred I detest this war without an enemy.
William Waller
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Join a Highland regiment, me boy. The kilt is an unrivalled garment for fornication and diarrhoea.
John Masters
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To her daughter Penelope of her future son-in-law, the poet John Betjeman:
We invite people like that to our houses, but we don't marry them.
Philip Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode
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This will be a campaign unlike any other in history. A campaign characterized by shock, by surprise, by flexibility, by the employment of precise munitions on a scale never before seen, and by the application of overwhelming force.
Tommy Franks
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There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life—happiness, freedom, and peace of mind—are always attained by giving them to someone else.
Peyton C. March
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My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you.
Iphicrates
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Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
William Prescott
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Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war let it begin here!
John Parker (captain)
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There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday.... And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow.
Robert Jones Burdette
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Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.
Nelson A. Miles
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