Oscar Wilde Quotes, Memories Quotes, War Quotes

The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful. Everyone calls victory in battle good, but it is not really good.

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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

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It is very important for I think those of us who desperately want peace, who see war as, at some level, a break-down, a manifestation of human weakness, to understand that sometimes it’s also necessary – and you know, to – to be able to balance two ideas at the same time; that we are constantly striving for peace, we are doubling up on our diplomacy, we are going to actively engage, we are going to try to see the world through other people’s eyes and not just our own.

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Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success.

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The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

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Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.

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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.

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Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.

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War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

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Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.

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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

I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.

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Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.

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I think that if you don't think we're in a war that you can't win the war.

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A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

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There is consequence of our forgetting who we are. Forgetting that we're able to create our environment, from our health to economy to war. Something can be done about everything we perceive as bad, if we so choose. If we are aware of the concept of compassion.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , War Quotes , Compassion Quotes

I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war against terrorism.

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The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.

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