Fred Hampton Quotes
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
F. W. de Klerk
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From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.
Eamon de Valera
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He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
Pat Buchanan
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Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
Irving Thalberg
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I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.
Adam Michnik
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
Samuel Butler
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We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.
Ban Ki-moon
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Garry Wills
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
Ramsey Clark
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I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
W. G. Sebald
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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.
Carl von Clausewitz
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All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.
Oliver North
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If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing.
Walter Cronkite
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I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
Umberto Eco
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Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
William Cobbett
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Are there any military actions that the president of the United States may not order on his own authority? If so, what are they? Bit by bit, decade by decade, Congress has abdicated its assigned role in authorizing war. Today, it merely rubberstamps what presidents decide to do (or simply stays mum). Who does this deference to an imperial presidency benefit? Have U.S. policies thereby become more prudent, enlightened, and successful?
Andrew Bacevich
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Nothing we learn about the universe threatens our faith. It only enriches it.
George Coyne
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When I went to Amazonia, l went as the field doctor for biologists studying crocodile behavior. There's no way humans should have any encounters with crocodiles. You should stay away from them!
Kenneth Kamler
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I'm not afraid to say I'm at war with the pigs.
Fred Hampton