Abraham Lincoln Quotes, War Quotes, Holiday Quotes

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

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That all war is physically frightful is obvious; but if that were a moral verdict, there would be no difference between a torturer and a surgeon. There are certain intellectuals who are too bright to be content with merely praising peace but who are infuriated by anybody praising war. If no war is possible, all criminality has its chance

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

Wars are fought on objectives, not on timetable, and that's why I've been so insistent upon not allowing ourselves to have policy driven by time table, but by objective.

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The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

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Sometimes I'm frustrated. Rarely surprised. Sometimes I'm happy, you know. But war is not a time of joy.

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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Leadership Quotes , War Quotes

I think a lot of the national Democrats believe that, you know, Iraq is a distraction and not part of the War on Terror. They've said so. And I strongly disagree.

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In war, one cannot say what one feels.

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Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , War Quotes , Enemy Quotes

We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Strong Quotes , War Quotes

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , War Quotes , Soldier Quotes

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

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

We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom.

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I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

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The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress....Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud....Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.

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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

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Tags : Alan Greenspan Quotes , War Quotes , Oil Quotes

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , War Quotes , Fate Quotes

Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once saw a man kill a lion with a 30-30 caliber rifle under certain conditions, but that doesn't mean that a 30-30 rifle is a lion gun.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , War Quotes , Mean Quotes

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

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