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The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the whole history of war. But we can at least crystallize the lessons into two simple maxims- one negative, the other positive. The first is that, in face of the overwhelming evidence of history, no general is justified in launching his troops to a direct attack upon an enemy firmly in position. The second, that instead of seeking to upset the enemy's equilibrium by one's attack, it must be upset before a real attack is, or can be successfully launched.
Author: B.h. Liddell Hart
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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
Author: B.h. Liddell Hart
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...one of the most notable characteristics of any Age of Conflict is the effort to achieve economic expansion by political rather than by economic means.
Author: Carroll Quigley
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In modern war, the longest purse decides oftener than the longest sword.
Author: David Ramsay
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These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
Author: Charles Lamb
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Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
Author: Jane Bryant Quinn
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Author: Wilfred Sheed
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Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
Author: G. K. Chesterton
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Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
Author: Mark B. Cohen
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Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
Author: Buck Henry
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Author: Pope Julius Iii
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The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspector.
Author: Alexandre Auguste Ledru-rollin
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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
Author: Eugene Mccarthy
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Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
Author: Bill Moyers
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We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
Author: News Report
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If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
Author: Polish Proverb
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That government is best which governs least.
Author: Harry S. Truman
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Don't steal. The government hates competition.
Author: Anonymous
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Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.
Author: Anonymous
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Crime, like disease, is not interesting; it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it.
Author: Anonymous
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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Author: Frank Herbert
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
Author: Upton Sinclair
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If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
Author: Francis Bacon
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Justice delayed is justice denied.
Author: William Gladstone
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A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
Author: Anonymous
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A nation's policy form an integral whole. Foreign policy and domestic policy are closely linked together; they are but one system; they condition each other.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
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There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
Author: Robert Oppenheimer
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The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more costly it is for governments to kill them. Evidence indicates that governments respond to this economic incentive.
Author: Gerald W. Scully
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The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.
Author: Margot Asquith
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The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.
Author: Marquis De Custine
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Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Author: Stephen Decatur
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Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love.
Author: D. D. Field
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
Author: Walter Bagehot
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God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials.
Author: J. K. Gressett
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The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
Author: St. Augustine
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Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
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Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class.
Author: Albert Jay Nock
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There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.
Author: Albert Jay Nock
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Author: John Kennedy
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The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Author: Shane Leslie
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If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
Author: Arnold Toynbee
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Author: Rich Little
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Author: James Reston
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Bad monetary and fiscal policy, often designed by the IMF, is the real cause of global problems. The only explanation for why government leaders continue to follow these policies is that by blaming markets, they avoid blaming themselves.
Author: Brian S. Wesbury
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To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
Author: Havelock Ellis
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Author: Patrick Henry
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Author: Patrick Henry
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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
Author: Patrick Henry
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I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...
Author: Richard Milhous Nixon
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