War Quotes
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Now all the youth of England are on fire, And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies; Now thrive the armorers, and honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man.
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When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals.
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I spent two and a half years in the Philippines in World War II.
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For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?
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The mad, cruel, and accursed American war.
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Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support it. As far as peace (which is one ingredient in our idea of civilization)is concerned, I think many would now agree that a foreign policy dominated by desire for peace is one of the many roads that lead to war.
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Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.
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Gambling was safer than war. More fun, too. Best of all, it gave him better odds.
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The revolution comes when two strangers smile at each other, when a father refuses to send his child to school because schools destroy children, when a commune is started and people begin to trust each other, when a young man refuses to go to war and when a girl pushes aside all that her mother has 'taught' her and accepts her boyfriends (sic) love.
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With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.
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Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.
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I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
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The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.
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Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.
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What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress.
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The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
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I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
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I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.
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The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.
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Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his long-term plans somewhat lightly and works from moment to moment 'as to the Lord.' It is only our daily bread that we are encouraged to ask for. The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to abridge them of the means of paying their engagements, made on your account. You may observe that their future power is confined to provide common defence and general welfare of the United States. If they apply money to any other purposes, they exceed their powers. The people of the United States who pay, are to be judges how far their money is properly applied.
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To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.
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The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
