Abraham Lincoln Quotes, War Quotes, Government Quotes

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.

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To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.

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Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

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Except when you're marching to war, it's not a very optimistic thought, is it? In other words, it's the opposite of optimistic when you're thinking you're going to war.

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So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky rained heroes upon the astonished earth. Surely the last fights of mankind were the best. What was the heavy pounding of your Homeric swordsmen, what was the creaking charge of chariots, besides this swift rush, this crash, this giddy triumph, this headlong sweep to death?

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , War Quotes , Hero Quotes

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

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Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors and witnesses diminishing by the day, and the reality that the Holocaust is fading into the pages of history and memory, we should not have to wait any longer.

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A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.

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Peace is more difficult than war.

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The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

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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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That man made me miss my destiny.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , War Quotes , Destiny Quotes

Withal I did infer your lineaments, Being the right idea of your father, Both in your form and nobleness of mind; Laid open all your victories in Scotland, Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace, Your bounty, virtue, fair humility; Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purpose Untouch'd or slightly handled in discourse.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Father Quotes , War Quotes

When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , War Quotes , Reality Quotes

The message is for everybody who wears the uniform: get ready. The United States will do what it takes to win this war... And this is an administration that is going to dedicate ourselves to winning that war.

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War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

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Tags : Adrien Brody Quotes , War Quotes , Safety Quotes

[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which is precious to a man-of the chief human property, rational freedom-and become submissive, machine-like implements of murder in the hands of their organized hierarchic authorities.

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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

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Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , War Quotes , Fate Quotes

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , War Quotes , May Quotes