War Quotes
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The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism.
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Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.
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Missile strikes - or any other such action - against a sovereign nation is an act of war.
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There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.
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There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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The Iraq war was not necessary.
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If we Americans are to learn from our mistakes, from the flailing, ineffective way we, as a nation, conducted the war on terror after the attacks of 9/11, and from the way we have failed to make our case to the great moderate mass of peace-loving people at the heart of the Muslim world, we need to listen to Greg Mortenson. I did, and it has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.
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It has cost me years of thought to arrive at certain results, by many believed to be unattainable, for which there are now numerous claimants, and the number of these is rapidly increasing, like that of the colonels in the South after the war.
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The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.
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If we succeeded, we will have the primary satisfaction of ending the war
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War is the father and king of all.
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This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.
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It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage.
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Whatever your gender, you can be a Star Wars fan. Of course I knew it from life before, but the core of enthusiastic female fans is a testimony to the non-gendered nature of the audience.
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Everybody knows that love is better than hate, and peace is better than war.
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When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.
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Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful.
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A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules, and it is of such force that it not only upholds those who are born princes, but it often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank. And, on the contrary, it is seen that when princes have thought more of ease than of arms they have lost their states. And the first cause of your losing it is to neglect this art; and what enables you to acquire a state is to be master of the art.
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I can't just go up to people standing in the snow at the German-Austrian border and ask them: "Are you an Islamist?" When people flee to us from war zones, we first have to help. But we also have to be quick to look very closely at who it is that is coming.
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If it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war.
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Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.
