Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes, Art Quotes, War Quotes

You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second.

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Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.

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If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.

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It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.

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I just remember, all I'm doing is remembering when I was a kid I remember that they used to put out there in the old west, a wanted poster. It said: "Wanted, Dead or Alive." All I want and America wants him brought to justice. That's what we want.

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In war, discipline can do more than fury.

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In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world, if poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.

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The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

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To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.

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Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

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I appeal to all men and women, whether they be eminent or humble, to declare that they will refuse to give any further assistance to war or the preparation of war.

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The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!

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Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.

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We've all been a little confused this past week, because our dearly beloved Westertoren bells have been carted off to be melted down for the war, so we have no idea of the exact time, either night or day.

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Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

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We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

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Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

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Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.

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I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

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