Abraham Flexner Quotes, War Quotes, Government Quotes

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... In Great Britain, the situation is similar. ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.

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Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Love Quotes , War Quotes

Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark ....If .... it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Dark Quotes

Laws are silent in time of war.

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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

Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , War Quotes , Thinking Quotes

There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , War Quotes , Fighting Quotes

At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , War Quotes , Savages Quotes

I am insulted by the persistent asertion that I want war. Am I a fool? War! It would settle nothing.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , War Quotes , Want Quotes

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , War Quotes , Army Quotes

He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

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

Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , War Quotes , Greek Quotes

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , War Quotes , Eagles Quotes

Foreign fighters are travelling into Iraq to make it a front line in the war on terror. And I would rather defeat them there than face them in our own country.

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Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , War Quotes , Army Quotes

We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again.

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Tags : Al Murray Quotes , War Quotes , Years Quotes

Wipe out the entire defense potential remaining to the Soviets.

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Now the Taliban will pay a price.

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You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , War Quotes , Shame Quotes

I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Horse Quotes , War Quotes