Lieutenant Quotes
47 quotes by 37 authors
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I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I…
— Smedley Butler
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Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall, Captain Grant, Captain…
— Abraham Lincoln
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In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let…
— Esai Morales
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This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I…
— Herman Melville
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Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all…
— Stephen Ambrose
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The Death Star is just full of British actors opening doors and going,Oh... I... oh... What is it Lieutenant Sebastian? It's just the Rebels, sir...…
— Eddie Izzard
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I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in…
— William Eldridge Odom
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I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high-class…
— Smedley Butler
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I have never been afraid to tackle tough or controversial issues, but I have always done it with the intent to do what I was…
— Clayton Hee
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During the Nuremberg trials, Oswald Pohl, an SS Lieutenant General,...is shown here explaining how Farben operated such concentration camps as Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
— G. Edward Griffin
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Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my generation, the career…
— Colin Powell
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I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are among…
— Edward Forbes
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I was the last Republican lieutenant governor and it's been over 20 years.
— Mike Curb
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Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.
— Bob Schieffer
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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The night you gave me my birthday party... you were a young Lieutenant and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn't I? And it was a…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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The network told me to get rid of Number One, the woman first lieutenant, and also get rid of 'that Martian fellow'... meaning, of course,…
— Gene Roddenberry
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Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.
— Joseph Heller
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I had a question. "Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?" The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. "Pearl Harbor is the most famous U.S.…
— James Patterson
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Clevinger was a troublemaker and a wise guy. Lieutenant Scheisskopf knew that Clevinger might cause even more trouble if he wasn't watched. Yesterday it was…
— Joseph Heller
Who Wrote These Lieutenant Quotes
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