Nathaniel Lyon Quotes

Rather than concede to the state of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my government in any matter however unimportant, I would see you, and you, and you, and you, and every man, woman and child in the state, dead and buried. This means war.

Nathaniel Lyon

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• During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Will
  • Islam

• The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • World
  • War
  • Greatest

• No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Government
  • Decision
  • Moment

• As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • War
  • Child
  • Values

• Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Money
  • Why
  • Think

• We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Government
  • Limits
  • Options

• Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Future
  • House

• Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Why
  • Government
  • Lies

• War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.

  

  Forrest Bird
  • World
  • War
  • Fly

• The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Work
  • Believe
  • War

• We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • War
  • Think
  • Against

• I was the Republican governor of the heavily Democratic state of New Mexico. I focused on good government, and I got it done - just like my running mate, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld. The people of New Mexico reelected me by a comfortable margin. Ditto for Weld.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody's private life.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Government

• What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Country
  • Government
  • Oil

• It is probably well that we had the war when we did. We are better off now than we would have been without it, and have made more rapid progress than we otherwise should have made... But this war was a fearful lesson, and should teach us the necessity of avoiding wars in the future.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • War
  • Future
  • Progress

• Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Different
  • Heart
  • War

• We’re at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?

  

  Curtis LeMay
  • War
  • Japanese

• To those who oppose war, I ask: If not now, when? How many more corpses are necessary before this country should take action?

  

  Leonard Peikoff
  • Country
  • War
  • Action

• We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.

  

  Bob Graham
  • War
  • Responsibility
  • Military

• Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

  

  Ovid
  • You
  • Path
  • Most

• This world isn't perfect. That means it isn't perfectly good; but it isn't perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Rather than concede to the state of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my government in any matter however unimportant, I would see you, and you, and you, and you, and every man, woman and child in the state, dead and buried. This means war.

  

  Nathaniel Lyon
  • War
  • Government
  • Right