"Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world."
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"For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former soldier, I'm here to set that record straight."
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"If it's about the lives of my soldiers at stake, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can."
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"O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts. Possess them not with fear."
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"I'm just glad we live in a world where girls can play soldiers."
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"Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead."
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"It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers."
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"The officers do not beat the men; the officers and men receive equal treatment. Soldiers are free to hold meetings and speak out. Trivial formalities have been done away with and the accounts are open for all to inspect."
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"You're the reason why selfless soldiers won't be kicked out of the military because of who they are or who they love."
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"No U.S. soldier ever dies in vain because they're carrying out the missions of their commander in chief. And we honor all the service that they've provided. Our troops have performed brilliantly. The question is for the next president, are we making good judgments about how to keep America safe precisely because sending our military into battle is such an enormous step."
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"Under the Barack Obama rules, if you wanted to help the military, if you wanted a pay raise for the soldiers, if you wanted to buy new airplanes and new ships and more munitions, a dollar for that, you had to have a dollar domestic spending. We just broke that parity. That's the biggest victory we could have had: $25 billion year over year for our military, to begin to rebuild our military, without that kind of corresponding increase in domestic discretionary spending."
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"A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?""
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"I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war."
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"Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid."
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"The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief."
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"Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they could possibly have done, if instead of being beloved and respected they had been hated and feared by those they commanded."
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"You look at any war zone and you talk to any soldiers and they have to blank out - in order for that to work for them, in order for them to survive they have to blank out something in themselves in order to do it."
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"The first half of Vietnam was fought to win the war, and the second half of Vietnam was soldiers going haywire without a mission, getting further and further towards our friend, Captain Kurtz and our friends at 'Apocalypse Now.'"
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"A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet."
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"When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!"
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