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For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to my mind were the most aggressive, and managed to keep their form in spite of their questionable discipline. Out of the line they were undoubtedly difficult to handle, but once in it they loved a fight. They were a curious mixture of toughness and sentimentality.

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There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

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No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.

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The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

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I feel a special kinship for our military. Because, unfortunately, I became a wartime president. And committed our military in the defense of our country to difficult assignments. I tell people all the time, I don't miss much about being president; I do miss looking in the eyes of people who volunteered to serve. And so not only do I feel a kinship, I feel an obligation and a duty to help.

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Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.

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We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

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America means opportunity, freedom, power.

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Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.

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Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

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Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war.

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Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

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I will never allow anyone to divide this people once more into religious camps, each fighting the other

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The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

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The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.

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These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America's resolve.

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When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

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Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

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Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.

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The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

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