Jane Austen Quotes, Kings Quotes, War Quotes

I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.

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We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.

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

Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , War Quotes , Men Quotes

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Country Quotes , War Quotes

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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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Men Quotes

The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

We remember the surge and we remember the Awakening -- when the abyss of chaos turned toward the promise of reconciliation. By battling and building block by block in Baghdad, by bringing tribes into the fold and partnering with the Iraqi army and police, you helped turn the tide toward peace.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Block Quotes , War Quotes

Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Brother Quotes , War Quotes

...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Stress Quotes

A wanton waste of projectiles.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , War Quotes , Waste Quotes

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , War Quotes , Commitment Quotes

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , War Quotes , Armor Quotes

Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Winning Quotes

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

Those who would wage war, should first eliminate all domestic enemies before proceeding to attack the external foe.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , War Quotes , Enemy Quotes

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Father Quotes , War Quotes

A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , War Quotes , Long Quotes

A sovereign of high character and intelligence must be able to know the right man, should place the responsibility on him, and expect results.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , War Quotes , Character Quotes