Adam Smith Quotes

The Hudson's Bay Company, before their misfortunes in the late war, had been much more fortunate than the Royal African Company.

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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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• Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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  • Peace

• Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• Beauty without expression is boring.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beauty
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• One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • World
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• But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Question

• 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
  • Time
  • Long
  • War

• For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Live
  • War
  • Service

• I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • War
  • Peace
  • Never

• Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Good
  • War

• A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • War
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• 'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Long
  • War
  • Happy

• It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • War
  • Got
  • Vietnam

• The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • War
  • True

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

  

  Manute Bol
  • War
  • Never
  • Gone

• Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.

  

  Pamela Meyer
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• I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Remember
  • War
  • Lost

• 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
  • War
  • Day
  • First

• The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • War
  • Control
  • Authority

• 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 Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.

  

  Donald Tusk

• Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

  

  Jane Byrne
  • Business
  • Chicago

• The Hudson's Bay Company, before their misfortunes in the late war, had been much more fortunate than the Royal African Company.

  

  Adam Smith
  • War