Woodrow Wilson Quotes, War Quotes, Government Quotes

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

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There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies in the man: that is all anybody can tell you about it.

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A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.

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Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?

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Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.

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Dunkirk has fallen... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You have not disappointed me.

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Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

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War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.

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Some of the same politicians and pundits that are so quick to reject the possibility of a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear program are the same folks who were so quick to go to war in Iraq and said it would take a few months.

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Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten.

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With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Peace Quotes , War Quotes

The same means that have supported every other popular belief have supported Christianity. War, imprisonment, and falsehood; deeds of unexampled and incomparable atrocity have made it what it is.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Religious Quotes , War Quotes

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

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lack of self-esteem is what causes wars because people who really love themselves don't go out and try to fight other people ... It's the root of all the problems.

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Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

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The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a refinment always more perfected in the art of killing. They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of "science"... We would not (On ne saurait", Fr.) imagine a more extraordinary moral blindness!

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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

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War is the business of barbarians.

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Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

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