Charles Dickens Quotes, War Quotes, Heart Quotes

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

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In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Military Quotes , War Quotes

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , War Quotes , Government Quotes

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

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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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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Judging Quotes

Ancestral voices prophesying war.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , War Quotes , Voice Quotes

My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.

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

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A true man hates no one.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Hate Quotes , War Quotes

I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Believe Quotes

Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.

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

Although deceit is detestable in all other things, yet in the conduct of war it is laudable and honorable; and a commander who vanquishes an enemy by stratagem is equally praised with one who gains victory by force.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , War Quotes , Enemy Quotes

Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is an evil, and most of them will agree, but with a reservation. "Yes," they will say, "wrong patriotism is an evil; but there is another kind, the kind we hold." But just what this good patriotism is, no one explains.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , War Quotes , People Quotes

An all-volunteer army is best suited to fight the new wars of the 21st century.

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As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , War Quotes , Hieroglyphics Quotes