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.

  

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• Beauty without expression is boring.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

  Samuel Butler
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Ted Cruz
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• My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two months without going into a house, under the snow in trenches. And no food to get, maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there, he said, to feed all Ireland; but bad management, they could not get it.

  

  Lady Gregory
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• For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

  

  Sam Ervin
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• It is not only the people of Gaza that can't afford having a fourth war - all the world cannot afford this.

  

  Federica Mogherini
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• I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.

  

  Kristi Yamaguchi
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• What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It's not giving up your family.

  

  Tamora Pierce
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• I’ll always defend the people I love even though I’m as terrifying as a baby penguin.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
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• Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And the higher you go, the more searching and careful you need to be.

  

  C.P. Cavafy
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• 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