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  • And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , War Quotes , Philosophy Quotes
  • My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Order Quotes
  • The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Curves Quotes
  • What happened to our nation on a September day set in motion the first great struggle of a new century. The enemies who struck us are determined and they are resourceful. They will not be stopped by a sense of decency or a hint of conscience--but they will be stopped.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , War Quotes , Struggle Quotes
  • I think everyone's kind of just whistling and pretending everything's OK. At the heart of this is the cover-up, and the misleading the country to war in Iraq. And quite honestly, I don't think Republicans actually did a particularly good or sophisticated job, but I think everybody wanted to be fooled. I remember being on the Bill Maher show talking about how ridiculous this was before the invasion. And, you know, a lot of people, even Democrats, had been so easily thrown into this fear frenzy that they lost common sense.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aaron McGruder Quotes , Country Quotes , War Quotes
  • Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , War Quotes , Mean Quotes