Rick Atkinson Quotes
There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. That's almost as many as died in June, 1944. Right to the very end, it was absolutely brutal.
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
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In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.
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As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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I have decorated soldiers for heroism before, and it was always such an honor to do it.
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A South Korean teenager, 18-year-old male, is about five inches taller than his North Korean counterpart. And there are many soldiers who are only about 4'6". The height requirement is supposed to be 4'9". That's the size of my 12-year-old son.
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It ought to be recognized for what it is: an absolutely historic investment by the County of Los Angeles.
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I arrived in San Francisco in January 1951. After the Second World War, the population was so uprooted. Soldiers came back home for brief periods and took off again. So the population was very fluid, and suddenly it was as if the continent tilted west. The whole population slid west. It took 10 years for America to coalesce into a new culture. And the new culture happened in San Francisco, not New York.
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These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.
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I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me.
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You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.
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Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
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...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.
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Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
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I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je t’aimais!
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The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their enemies without strife. The greatest directors of men are those who yield place to others. This is called the Virtue of not striving, the capacity for directing mankind; this is being the compeer of Heaven. It was the highest goal of the ancients.
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Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.
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Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?
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I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers.
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You have the energy when you're a kid to really fight for rights - that's why kids make great soldiers, right?
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Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular unique quality. In fact, we can neglect nothing because everything we select or do sends a message to the observer...
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There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. That's almost as many as died in June, 1944. Right to the very end, it was absolutely brutal.
