Stanley Baldwin Quotes

War would end if the dead could return.

Stanley Baldwin

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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
  • Art
  • War
  • Enemy

• I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Return
  • Dreaming
  • Informed

• The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • War
  • Free
  • Military

• Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.

  

  Karl Rove
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Prepare

• What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by doing so, introduce into our defense vulnerabilities based on self-delusion.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Future
  • Problem

• I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

  

  Manute Bol
  • War
  • Never
  • Gone

• I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • People
  • War
  • Thought

• We're so enamored of technological advancements that we fail to think about how to best apply those technologies to what we're trying to achieve. This can mask some very important continuities in the nature of war and their implications for our responsibilities as officers.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Important
  • Trying
  • War

• When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Bad
  • Learn

• We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • War
  • Energy
  • Terrorism

• President-elect Trump wants to win them if you're going to be involved in a war. I don't think he wants to be involved in war, but when we are, he wants to win.

  

  Jack Keane
  • War
  • Think
  • Win

• The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • War
  • America
  • Evil

• That was not what men and women fought for during the war.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Things
  • Plan
  • Return

• War has given applied psychology a tremendous impulse. This will, on the whole, do good, for psychology, which is the largest and last of the sciences, must not try to be too pure.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Good
  • War
  • Psychology

• Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Work
  • War

• An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Book
  • War
  • Opinion

• Today war seems to have undergone a change of meaning, insofar as it is not a war of religion but a war of interests, not a war of conflicting cultures or civilizations but a war of national areas, not a war of human beings but a technical struggle of machines one against another and all against the non–combatant population.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • War
  • Today
  • Struggle

• Yet, here we are, long and difficult years into that conflict,' ... 'we still have not created the state we promised them. On the contrary, our costly and valiant efforts have produced an outcome our government did not predict or intend-a failed state spinning out of control into anarchy and civil war.

  

  Anthony Zinni
  • Long
  • War
  • Control

• Oh, it sounds ridiculous, I know, in Britain in the twentieth century, but I learned in the war that civilization anywhere is a very thin crust.

  

  John Buchan
  • War

• The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

  

  Paul Valery
  • Universe
  • Present
  • Profound

• I have been a strong proponent of pay-as-you-go. Every dollar that I've proposed, I've proposed an additional cut so that it matches.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Strong
  • Cutting
  • Dollars

• It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

  

  Jon Corzine
  • Hours
  • Congress
  • Increase

• War would end if the dead could return.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • War
  • Return