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“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”
Winston Churchill Quotes |
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“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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“If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful”
C.S. Lewis Quotes |
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“The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.”
Chinese Proverbs Quotes |
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“Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
Hermann Goering Quotes |
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“War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes |
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“When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.”
Winston Churchill Quotes |
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“I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
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“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”
General George S. Patton Quotes |
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“Either this or upon this. (Either bring this back or be brought
back upon it.)”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: said to be a Spartan mother's words to her son on giving him his shield
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“We will fight them in the air, land and sea, and their aggression
will achieve nothing but failure.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: about U.S./British air strikes on Iraq, broadcast on Iraqi television
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“Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists,
nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of
the Slavs will turn us from our aim of protecting and extending
German influence all the world over.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: Official secret report of the Germans, quoted in the "French Yellow Book"
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“Oft he that doth abide
Is cause of his own paine,
But he that flieth in good tide
Perhaps may fight again.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: A Pleasant Satyre or Poesie, from the French (about 1595)
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“He who flies at the right time can fight again.
[Lat., Celuy qui fuit bonne heure
Peut combattre derechef.]”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: Satyre Menippee
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“It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that
this is war.”
Charles Francis Adams Quotes Source: Dispatch of Earl Russell
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“Both Regiments or none.”
Samuel Adams Quotes Source: (For the Boston Town Meeting), to Gov. Hutinson demanding the withdrawal of British troops from Bost
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“'Twas in Trafalgar's bay
The saucy Frenchmen lay.”
Samuel James Adams Quotes Source: Trafalgar Bay
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“My voice is still for war.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato
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“From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act V, sc. 4)
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“Fighting men are the city's fortress.”
Alcaeus Quotes Source: Fragment (XXII)
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“Fifty-four forty, or fight.”
William Allen Quotes Source: in the U.S. Senate, on the Oregon Boundary Question
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“"I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter
tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and
lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot
bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from
one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have
had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant
thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the
drawers."”
Hans Christian Andersen Quotes Source: The Old House
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“Let who will boast their courage in the field,
I find but little safety from my shield,
Nature's, not honour's law we must obey:
This made me cast my useless shield away.”
Archilochus Quotes Source: one version of his quote
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“And by a prudent flight and cunning save
A life which valour could not, from the grave.
A better buckler I can soon regain,
But who can get another life again?”
Archilochus Quotes Source: Fragment (VI), see Plutarch's "Morals", vol. I, "Essay of the Laws, etc., of the Lacedemonians", one
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