--Ike, about Gen. MacArthur: "I studied theatrics under him for five years."
--Gen. Wm. T. Sherman, to Union medical officers complaining about the strongwilled "Cyclone in Calico" Maryanne "Mother" Bickerdyke's red-tape shredding methods of caring for wounded troops: "She ranks me!"
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"Let's roll." Todd Beamer, aboard United Flight 93 over western Pennsylvania, September 11, 2001.
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