Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Peace Quotes, War Quotes

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

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Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , War Quotes , Literature Quotes

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

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If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.

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Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants, and honest men are always poor; nor do any ever escape from servitude but the bold and faithless, or from poverty, but the rapacious and fraudulent.

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These are six ways of courting defeat, which must be carefully noted by the general who has attained a responsible post.

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This is a global war on terror. We're facing extremists that believe something. And they want to achieve objectives. And, therefore, the United States must use all our assets and we must work with others to defeat this enemy. That's the call.

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Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Peace Quotes , War Quotes

Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.

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Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. But, either it was different in blood,- Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,- Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Running Quotes , War Quotes

Until a radical change takes place and we wipe out all nationalities, all ideologies, all religious divisions, and establish a global relationship - psychologically first, inwardly before organizing the outer - we shall go on with wars.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Religious Quotes , War Quotes

... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?

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

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You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , War Quotes , Fighting Quotes

It is a tough choice. In war, people die. But when we refuse to confront the enemy, we will face the enemy in New York and Washington, as we did on 9-11. As for responsiblity, of course we stand by our decision to go to war on Iraq. President Kennedy said that friend and foe alike should know where America stands.

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But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , War Quotes , Boys Quotes

A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , War Quotes , People Quotes

In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.

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It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but rather to make one's self invincible.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

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Tags : A. J. P. Taylor Quotes , Peace Quotes , War Quotes