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We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.
George Crook
Try
Will
Country
Past
Complete
Our
Immediately
Must
Indian
Civil
Indians
Laws
Civilization
Shame
Take
True
Soon
Equal
Force
Him
Source
Question
Just
Form
Dishonor
Patriots
Thing
Guaranteeing
The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room enough in the East, and they must go elsewhere; and they come out West, as you have seen them coming for the last few years.
George Crook
You
Men
Seen
Year
Few
White
Every
Birds
Enough
Elsewhere
East
Out
Must
Come
Like
Coming
Go
West
Years
Eggs
Room
Them
Last
Last Few Years
We've got to be responsible, somebody's got to be responsible for it.
George Downing
Somebody
Responsible
Got
But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
George Haven Putnam
You
Conservative
Old
Conservatism
Say
Adherence
Destructive
Tried
Something
New
Sort
Revolutionary
While
Against
I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
George Rogers Clark
You
Become
Prisoner
Virginia
Clark
Am
George
Rogers
Just
Commonwealth
It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.
Gerd von Rundstedt
You
Madness
Will
First
Else
Destroyed
Find
Someone
Troops
Attempt
Retreat
First Place
Repeat
Order
Hold
Cannot
Place
Second
Second Place
Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force.
Gerd von Rundstedt
Path
Back
Way
Out
Seemed
Russians
Area
Factor
Wiped
Soon
Adverse
Fell
Force
Another
Fresh
Arrival
Blocked
Us
Received
If was, increased by a lack of railways in Russia - for bringing up supplies to our advancing troops.
Gerd von Rundstedt
Increased
Our
Russia
Troops
Supplies
Advancing
Up
Lack
Railways
Bringing
The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.
Gideon Welles
Success
War
Heart
Nation
Has-Been
Hopes
Some
Misfortunes
Although
Waged
Sounder
Been
Errors
Brighter
To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose.
Giulio Douhet
Acceptance
Enemy
Victory
Whatever
Defeat
Air
Pleased
Beaten
Terms
Impose
Command
May
Means
Conquer
The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed.
Giulio Douhet
Enemy
Power
Own
Speed
Air
Destroy
Possible
Territory
Greatest
Method
Effective
Offensive
Defending
The priest is the personification of falsehood.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Priest
Falsehood
Personification
Apart from these, let all others remain to guard our glorious banners.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Glorious
Guard
Others
Our
Remain
Banner
Apart
The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
Harold Russell
Before
Hooks
Out
More
Than
Did
Hands
Roll
Any
Them
My life is a series of things that just happen.
Harold Russell
Life
Life Is A
My Life
Just
Happen
Series
Things
The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.
Harold Russell
Democracy
Power
Military
States
Must
Civil
Constitutional
Lead
Over
Contempt
Inevitably
Issue
Ultimate
Lines
Authority
Any
Whether
Tolerate
Actions
Military Power
United
Away
United States
The United States Air Force didn't even become a separate service until 1947.
Harry M. Wyatt III
Service
Air Force
Become
Air
States
Until
Force
Separate
Even
United
United States
We need to make sure that we have one another's back and recognize the fact that patriots come in all different sizes, shapes, colors, not all of them wear uniforms, some of them are employers, some of them are the family members who stay at home and take of business back here in the state of Oklahoma.
Harry M. Wyatt III
Home
Family
Business
State
Back
Oklahoma
Recognize
Members
Stay
Wear
Stay-At-Home
Some
Fact
Colors
Take
Shapes
Come
Employers
Make
Another
Sure
Family Members
Different
Sizes
Patriots
Them
Uniforms
Who
Here
Need
You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread.
Heinz Guderian
You
Somebody
Fingers
Spread
Fist
Hit
Your
Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.
Heinz Guderian
Future
Battle
Will
Troops
Armored
Role
Whenever
Decisive
Wars
Fought
Play
It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw.
Heinz Guderian
Destroy
Decisive
Warsaw
That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.
Henry Knox
Truth
Darkness
Light
Cause
True
Remote
May
Taxes
Far
Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace.
Henry Knox
Peace
Political
Other
Our
Machine
Independent
Composed
Federal
Head
Since
Operating
Perpetually
Been
Against
Each
Ever
Thirteen
The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.
Henry Knox
Good
Constitution
Mind
Frame
Local
Seems
Having
Prevent
Federal
Exerted
Effect
Any
Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.
Henry Knox
Government
Rebellion
Liberty
Ripe
Having
Shall
Name
Principle
Very
Which
Against
Formidable
Length
Reason
Now
We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.
Henry Knox
Government
People
Other
Our
Correspondent
Laws
Brutal
Support
Wishes
Force
Were
Nations
Requiring
Imagined
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