"I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers."

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Source : "The Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indian". Book by Ralph K. Andrist (p. 258), 2001.

George Armstrong Custer

#War Quotes #Soldier Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society, to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights; when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property.”
“One has to give minority groups a kind of reward, an emotional reward, that it is worthwhile assimilating to this particular majority group. And if this majority group looks down on itself ... If a minority group is not given some pride in assimilating to the culture of another group then the process is very difficult.”

Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu
“The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration”
“Donâ€™t let anyone tell you that you canâ€™t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.”
“The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.”
“God is the God of 'right now.' He doesn't want you sitting around regretting yesterday. Nor does He want you wringing your hands and worrying about the future. He wants you focusing on what He is saying to you and putting in front of you ... right now.”
“It is good to come to a country you know practically nothing about. Your thoughts grow still, useless. Everything must be rebuilt. In a country you know nothing about, there is no reference point. You struggle to associate colors, smells, dim memories. You live a little like a child, or an animal. Objects and events may bring things to mind, but in the end they remain no more than what they are in fact. They begin only when you experience them, vanish when others follow.”

Source : Andrzej Stasiuk (2011). “On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe”, p.79, HMH
“Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.”

Source : Interview with Rewa Zeinati, www.sukoonmag.com. December 17, 2015.

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