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I havent, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed servic

I havent, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order – not one. – Oliver North

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I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again. – Oliver North

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When youre told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isnt going to leak. – Oliver North

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Trust
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. – Barbara Tuchman

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[History] is fallible as every man is fallible. But it is likewise trustworthy, as a man is trustworthy who has looked into himself and come to know how blended are dust and fire in the innermost recesses of the human heart. – Arthur Bestor

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Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I dont know how much history young women today know about those battles. – Sandra Day OConnor

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There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. – Woodrow Wilson

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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. – Theodore Roosevelt

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The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy cant be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office – that all of the worlds problems arent his predecessors fault. – Sarah Palin

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