"It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag."
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"There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them."
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"Just think of the trust that often exists in soldiers. Within their own unit, you could say they have to trust each other. A spirit of camaraderie builds up and, in the end, they will risk their lives for each other. They may even go so far as to dehumanise the other, enemy group - a mechanism you can also observe in chimps."
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"God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers."
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"Blind hate against the enemy creates a forceful impulse that cracks the boundaries of natural human limitations, transforming the soldier in an effective, selective and cold killing machine. A people without hate cannot triumph against the adversary."
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"When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen."
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"Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face."
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"A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all"
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"You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears."
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"I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in."
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"Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty."
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"Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind."
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"The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally"
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"All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated."
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"Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head."
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"At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution."
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"War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves, there are bound to be national and racial antagonisms, the childish quarreling over ideologies, the multiplication of soldiers, the saluting of flags, and all the many brutalities that go to create organized murder."
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"Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears."
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"The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier."
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"Every lover is a soldier."
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