"That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired."

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I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.

— Mitch Albom