Sydney Biddle Barrows Quotes
If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.
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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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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill
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You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.
Hal Holbrook
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Garry Wills
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The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.
Hamza Yusuf
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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
Victor Hugo
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I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.
R. J. Cutler
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I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
Wangari Maathai
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Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers - scores at a time - into a bunker deep underground and far from Washington.
Barton Gellman
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It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.
Paddy Chayefsky
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War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
Karl Marlantes
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I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
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We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.
Hanoi Hannah
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He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.
Samantha Smith
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The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!
Ted Turner
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A Syrian war would consume Trump's presidency.
Pat Buchanan
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When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.
M.I.A.
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The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite...to the attainment of the ends of such power.
Alexander Hamilton
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When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.
W. H. Auden
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If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.
Sydney Biddle Barrows