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Nelson A. Miles Quotes

One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.

Nelson A. Miles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: soldier
Nationality: american
Birth: August 8, 1839 - May 15, 1925

Topics

God Man Government Law American

I studied social studies at Harvard, which makes it sound like I was in seventh grade. It was a choose-your-own-adventure major, where you could decide what you were going to focus on.

Jennifer Hyman

Focus You Sound Decide Harvard Like

Since 1945, no one in the U.S. military has liked the end result of the military conflicts we've been in: Vietnam, Korea, certainly Iraq, and probably Afghanistan. But in a democracy, you salute.

John F. Kelly

Democracy End Result You Military

I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.

Robert Plant

Name Band Always Big Got Wanted

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Jean de La Fontaine

Pleasure Twice Deceive Deceiver

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

Sophocles

Fear Him Everything Who

Often, my liberal Canadian brethren will claim that 'Canada doesn't get involved in foreign affairs or wars overseas. We turn the other cheek.' No. Canada doesn't have the military might to exercise any option other than to remain uninvolved. They aren't turning the other cheek. They're pulling a Sweden.

Steven Crowder

Exercise Canada Will Military Turn

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Socrates

Good Power People Wish Doing Harm

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Rodman Philbrick

Good Children Imagination Write

When Google reached out to me in 2011, they wanted me to build out their female lifestyle vertical. When they were starting with that initiative, they were giving each production house a million dollars to produce content.

Michelle Phan

Me Giving House Lifestyle Initiative

At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally than before. This was not an easy thing to do. My mates did the simple thing in the first place and mainly passed with honours and went on to have remarkably successful lives.

Michael Leunig

Great Simple Year Easy Place First

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

Michael Moore

Journalism Form Documentaries

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

Jason Schwartzman

Alone Loneliness Being Alone People