Woodrow Wilson Quotes, War Quotes, Mean Quotes

I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. . . . No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.

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What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

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If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , War Quotes , Way Quotes

There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; a delicacy of honour, which is sensitive to shame; over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.

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It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

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Definition of victory which is really an important thing for the American people to understand is that we have an ally in the war on terror, that democracy is able to sustain itself and defend itself, and the Iraqi people feel that the security forces that we've trained up are capable of defending themselves against the violent.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , War Quotes , People Quotes

If you make a 'Star Wars' reference, everybody's familiar with that. It's a common reference that most people can relate to - 'Bartleby, The Scrivener,' probably not so much.

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Tags : Adam Reed Quotes , Stars Quotes , War Quotes

War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves, there are bound to be national and racial antagonisms, the childish quarreling over ideologies, the multiplication of soldiers, the saluting of flags, and all the many brutalities that go to create organized murder.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , War Quotes , Soldier Quotes

Democracies don't war; democracies are peaceful countries.

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In war, truth is often the first casualty.

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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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I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

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Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend. All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II. Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?

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Tags : Adam Hochschild Quotes , War Quotes , Years Quotes

When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , War Quotes , Reality Quotes

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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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , War Quotes , Government Quotes

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

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The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

Withal I did infer your lineaments, Being the right idea of your father, Both in your form and nobleness of mind; Laid open all your victories in Scotland, Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace, Your bounty, virtue, fair humility; Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purpose Untouch'd or slightly handled in discourse.

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