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Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme

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The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources.

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.

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I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

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That all war is physically frightful is obvious; but if that were a moral verdict, there would be no difference between a torturer and a surgeon. There are certain intellectuals who are too bright to be content with merely praising peace but who are infuriated by anybody praising war. If no war is possible, all criminality has its chance

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We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

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So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.

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Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.

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I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

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I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

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With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity, and that only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

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One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

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Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

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Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.

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It is war's prize to take all vantages; And ten to one is no impeach of valor.

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Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

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Although deceit is detestable in all other things, yet in the conduct of war it is laudable and honorable; and a commander who vanquishes an enemy by stratagem is equally praised with one who gains victory by force.

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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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There is no working middle course in wartime.

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