Barack Obama Quotes, Hurt Quotes, War Quotes

In America, we're getting too comfortable with our ability to take kinetic strikes around the world without having enough process to avoid consistently the kinds of civilian casualties that can end up actually hurting us in the war against radicalization.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Hurt Quotes , War Quotes

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

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , War Quotes , Fighting Quotes

A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , War Quotes , Blow Quotes

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Peace Quotes , War Quotes

Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Military Quotes , War Quotes

Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , War Quotes , Order Quotes

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Peace Quotes , War Quotes

If we are safe today, it is because America has stood with us. If we are to remain safe tomorrow, it will be because America remains powerful and self-confident. When, therefore, the Americans face difficulties, we need to say to them more clearly: We are with you.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Powerful Quotes , War Quotes

We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , War Quotes , Inspire Quotes

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , War Quotes , Fighting Quotes

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , War Quotes , Men Quotes

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , War Quotes , Slavery Quotes

The antagonism between nationalities will lose all its acuteness on the day when neither the iniquitous tendency to oppression and domination, nor the perpetual danger of the threatening preparations for war will exist. ("L'antagonisme entre les nationalités perdra toute son acuité le jour où n'existera plus la tendance inique à l'oppression et à la domination, ni le perpétuel danger des menaçants préparatifs de guerre. », Fr. ")

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Tags : African Spir Quotes , War Quotes , Son Quotes

On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and flags. Gongs and drums, banners and flags, are means whereby the ears and eyes of the host may be focused on one particular point.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Peace Quotes , War Quotes

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

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Tags : Abbe Pierre Quotes , War Quotes , Paris Quotes

War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes