Winston Churchill Quotes, War Quotes, Judging Quotes

Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.

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Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among the nations.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Peace Quotes , War Quotes

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!

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Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.

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War and marketing have many similarities.

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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers is grim and crude; not for a philosophic view of life - hers is that of a country parson's daughter; but for her poetry. Probably that is so with all writers who have, as she has, an overpowering personality, so that, as we say in real life, they have only to open the door to make themselves felt.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , War Quotes , Character Quotes

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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War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , War Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Peace Quotes , War Quotes

Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

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Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

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Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , War Quotes , Mean Quotes

I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , War Quotes , Hate Quotes

Don't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men to laugh--get good humor under fire--war is a game that's played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

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One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.

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We are not at war against Islam.

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Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible. These are: (1) Flight; (2) insubordination; (3) collapse; (4) ruin; (5) disorganisation; (6) rout.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art 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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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Freedom Quotes , War Quotes

Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , War Quotes , Past Quotes