War Quotes
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Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.
Oscar Wilde
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'When did you become a shivering old woman,' Okonkwo asked himself, 'you, who are known in all the nine villages for your valor in war? How can a man who has killed five men in battle fall to pieces because he has added a boy to their number? Okonkwo, you have become a woman indeed.'
Chinua Achebe
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Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Once you start a war, you have to win.
G. Gordon Liddy
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
A. J. P. Taylor
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Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
Irving Thalberg
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It's quite a traumatic thing for a lot of our veterans that come back... You're in a war zone, you're dodging IED's and bullets one day and a couple days later you're back in society again with a bunch of people that have no idea of what you've been through.
Charlie Daniels
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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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We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.
Albert Einstein
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The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace before the atomic age was announced to the world with the destruction of Hiroshima and before the Russian entry into war. ... The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military standpoint, in the defeat of Japan.
Chester W. Nimitz