"Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield."
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"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security."
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"The enemy are only 50 yards from us. We are heavily outnumbered. We are under devastating fire. I shall not withdraw an inch but will fight to our last man and our last round."
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"Military cemeteries around the world are packed with brainwashed dead soldiers who were convinced God was on their side. America prays for God to destroy our enemies. Our enemies pray for God to destroy us. Somebody's gonna be disappointed! Somebody's wasting their time! Could it be.. everyone?"
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"We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world."
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"If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience."
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"Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts."
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"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."
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"I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves."
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"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire."
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"Once you run for office, you're in it - sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally."
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"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
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"If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in."
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"We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength."
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"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."
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"I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did."
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"It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels ... or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny."
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"The difference between a good and great officer is about ten seconds."
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"The secret of war lies in the communications."
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"A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale."
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