Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, War Quotes, Enemy Quotes

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

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Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the reasons which made him bind himself no longer exist. If men were all good, this precept would not be a good one; but as they are bad, and would not observe their faith with you, so you are not bound to keep faith with them.

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We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

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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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In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

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We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

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10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?

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I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival

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We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.

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The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.

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How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

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War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

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And we will win the war, and there will be costs. But the military folks understand that, and so do I, and so does the Secretary of Defense.

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The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down.

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First of all, I - right after September the 11th, I knew we were fighting a different kind of war. . . . And the people responsible for helping us protect and defend came forth with the current program, because it enables us to move faster and quicker. And that's important. We've got to be fast on our feet, quick to detect and prevent. . . .

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The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]

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War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.

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We are not at war against Islam.

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Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

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Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

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