"I did not decide to become an officer to start a military career. I still wanted to be an agronomist and work in some remote corner of Russia after the war. I could not suppose that my country would change, and I would."

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Source : "The matter of my whole life" by Marshal A.M. Vasilevsky, Moscow, Politizdat, 1978.

Aleksandr Vasilevsky

#Country Quotes #Military Quotes #War Quotes

“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”
“Please give your life to peace, justice and care.”
“The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good.”
“I wasn't the athletic kid in my family. Both of my brothers were on athletic scholarships and my dad played semi-pro hockey. My younger brother played pro hockey. I was the music kid. But I always loved sports. I grew up around it.”
“The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.”
“Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.”
“The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.”
“It doesn't matter what religion you are. If you come to Israel you'll find history that will blow you away...Everywhere we go we end each day saying, 'That was the most incredible day we've ever had.' It's been quite a trip.”

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