War Quotes
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Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.
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Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
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Civil war, now, 100 years in the future - the things that motivate human beings, they don't change emotionally.
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War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.
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In America, we're getting too comfortable with our ability to take kinetic strikes around the world without having enough process to avoid consistently the kinds of civilian casualties that can end up actually hurting us in the war against radicalization.
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I'm not for a temporary war tax. We're putting actual dollars in one way or the other, and so if we're gonna look at taxes, we ought to look at a comprehensive tax reform policy.
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You read in any war stories - World War II, whatever - that there are many, many heroes. There are the main stories you always hear about, but there are all these other little people that did things that were very important that we don't always know about.
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And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans have died. Our pessimists believe that we have lost the war.
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War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.
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A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is always more honorable. But it may be advantageous to take the offensive, instead of awaiting the attack on the frontiers.
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If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.
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Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.
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In the post-war United States, you had this race to the suburbs. Cities shrank, the suburbs got bigger - and the notion of community changed drastically. You went from all being very close together to all being spaced apart and slightly suspicious of one another.
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The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet.
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These are the final rites of the funeral of the Cold War, with Russia as a friend and ally and no longer as an enemy.
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As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.
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Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
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It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.
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There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
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The United States is broke — fiscally, morally, intellectually — and the Fed has incited a global currency war Japan just signed up, the Brazilians and Chinese are angry, and the German-dominated euro zone is crumbling that will soon overwhelm it. When the latest bubble pops, there will be nothing to stop the collapse. If this sounds like advice to get out of the markets and hide out in cash, it is.
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The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy.
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Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of Power.
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War is not a jobs program.
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In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.
