Abraham Lincoln Quotes, War Quotes, Lying Quotes

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

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Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Time Quotes , War Quotes

I can't imagine what it would be to be president when the United States at war with yourself. People killing each other here in America on a massive basis. Just can't imagine what it would be.

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

American mission in Iraq is clear: We're hunting down the terrorists. We're helping Iraqis build a free nation that is an ally in the war on terror. We're advancing freedom in the broader Middle East. We are removing a source of violence and instability and laying the foundation of peace for our children and our grandchildren.

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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , War Quotes , Fighting Quotes

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

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Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.

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It is better to win the peace and to lose the war.

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Tags : Bob Marley Quotes , Peace Quotes , War Quotes

The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , War Quotes , Inspire Quotes

A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

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

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The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?

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Tags : Adam C. Engst Quotes , Horse Quotes , War Quotes

A man can die but once.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , War Quotes , Men Quotes

Carefully study the well-being of your men, and do not overtax them. Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength. Keep your army continually on the move, and devise unfathomable plans.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.

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Tags : Alan Sillitoe Quotes , War Quotes , Government Quotes

Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive . . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part . . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Country Quotes , War Quotes

We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , War Quotes , Struggle Quotes

We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Strong Quotes , War Quotes

I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Country Quotes , War Quotes

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , War Quotes , Personal Qualities Quotes