Soldiers Quotes
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We don’t really want to know what soldiers go through in combat. We do not really want to know how many children are being molested and abused in our own society or how many couples—almost a third, as it turns out—engage in violence at some point during their relationship. We want to think of families as safe havens in a heartless world and of our own country as populated by enlightened, civilized people. We prefer to believe that cruelty occurs only in faraway places like Darfur or the Congo. It is hard enough for observers to bear witness to pain. Is it any wonder, then, that the traumatized individuals themselves cannot tolerate remembering it and that they often resort to using drugs, alcohol, or self-mutilation to block out their unbearable knowledge?
Bessel van der Kolk
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To quell the women’s revolt, the British first sent police, then soldiers, and finally even the Boy Scouts.
Estelle Freedman
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I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
Harry S Truman
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If the [captured Israeli] soldiers are not returned, we will turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years.
Dan Halutz
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Excellent soldiers are not furious.
Lao Tzu
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I would say that what's been mobilized to this point - something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required.
Eric Shinseki
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Japan is formally apologizing and admitting the state was responsible for the system of comfort stations or brothels for soldiers in which mostly teenage girls were expected to service 60 to 70 men a day. That is from a U.N. report.
Elise Hu
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We have diverted soldiers from other organizations to fill our high-priority, war-fighting formations, ... Second, we have, for years, mortgaged our future readiness -- this modernization effort -- in order to assure that our soldiers had, in the near-term, what it takes to fight and win decisively.
Eric Shinseki
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I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.
Wilhelm Keitel
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WWE is there for the soldiers.
Bobby Lashley
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Their orders were to draw the newly arrived Americans into battle and search for the flaws in their thinking that would allow a Third World army of peasant soldiers who traveled by foot and fought at the distant end of a two-month-long supply line of porters not only to survive and persevere, but ultimately to prevail in the war—which was, for them, entering a new phase.
Hal Moore
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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Seneca the Younger
