Leo Tolstoy Quotes, War Quotes, Should Have Quotes

It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.

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I believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics, and very probably at some time, Jews. I have consistently tried while President to act in relation to my fellow Americans of Catholic faith as I hope that any future President who happens to be Catholic will act towards his fellow Americans of Protestant faith. Had I followed any other course I should have felt that I was unfit to represent the American people.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Believe Quotes , Should Have Quotes

For a prince should have two fears: one, internal concerning his subjects; the other, external, concerning foreign powers. From the latter he can always defend himself by his good troops and friends; and he will always have good friends if he has good troops.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Good Friend Quotes , Should Have Quotes

Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Fading Quotes

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Sea Quotes

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Law Quotes

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

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Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Procrastination Quotes , Should Have Quotes

No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Memories Quotes , Should Have Quotes

My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Iron Quotes

I've never said that troops should be withdrawn. What I've said is, is that we've got to make sure that we secure and execute the rebuilding and reconstruction process effectively and properly, and I don't think we should have an artificial deadline when to do that.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Should Have Quotes

Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Yards Quotes

It should have great meaning that of all the titles of respect and honor and admiration that could be given him, that God himself, he who is the highest of all, chose to be addressed simply as “Father.”

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Tags : A. Theodore Tuttle Quotes , Father Quotes , Should Have Quotes

Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Heaven Quotes

The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Cracks Quotes

A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

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Tags : A. Whitney Brown Quotes , Black And White Quotes , Should Have Quotes

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Ideas Quotes

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

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Tags : Alan Cumming Quotes , Carpe Diem Quotes , Should Have Quotes

There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Doubt Quotes

Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Patience Quotes , Should Have Quotes

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Should Have Quotes , Ideas Quotes