George W. Bush Quotes, Country Quotes, War Quotes

These aren't joyous times when we have war in Iraq. These are challenging times, and they're difficult times, and they're straining the psyche of our country. I understand that.

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There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man.

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

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I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

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I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

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Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

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Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

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I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself.

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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

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At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

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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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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Horse Quotes , War Quotes

This is a different - a different era, a different war, Stretch. So what we're - people are changing phone numbers and phone calls, and they're moving quick. And we've got to be able to detect and prevent. I keep saying that, but this is a - it requires quick action. . . .

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Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!

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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

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If, on our own account, we do not intend to wage war, we are much less willing to do so for interests which do not concern Germany and are alien to it.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , War Quotes , Germany Quotes

Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at risk of arrest and prosecution, the United States will be most reluctant to act in order to curb aggression or prevent genocide. So the effect of the court may well be to diminish, not increase, the numbers of (in the words of the UN Secretary General) 'innocents of distant wars and conflicts'.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , War Quotes , Order Quotes

Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of beginning it; but it belongs to government alone, when it becomes inevitable.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Christian Quotes , War Quotes