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Either this or upon this. (Either bring this back or be brought
back upon it.)
Author: Unattributed Author
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.
Author: Unattributed Author
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.
Author: Unattributed Author
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.
Author: Unattributed Author
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.]
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Satyre Menippee
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It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that
this is war.
Author: Charles Francis Adams
Source: Dispatch of Earl Russell
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Both Regiments or none.
Author: Samuel Adams
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.
Author: Samuel James Adams
Source: Trafalgar Bay
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My voice is still for war.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato
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From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act V, sc. 4)
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Fighting men are the city's fortress.
Author: Alcaeus
Source: Fragment (XXII)
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Fifty-four forty, or fight.
Author: William Allen
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."
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
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.
Author: Archilochus
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?
Author: Archilochus
Source: Fragment (VI), see Plutarch's "Morals", vol. I, "Essay of the Laws, etc., of the Lacedemonians", one
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Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide
another, that he may retire the sooner out of Europe.
Author: Aristides ("The Just")
Source: referring to proposal to destroy Xerxes' bridge of ships over the Hellespont
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We make war that we may live in peace.
Author: Aristides ("The Just")
Source: referring to proposal to destroy Xerxes' bridge of ships over the Hellespont
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If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two
sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international
obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting
man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are
fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are
not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the
arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.
Author: Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith
Source: Statement, to House of Commons, Declaration of War with Germany, Aug. 4, 1914
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They shall not pass till the stars be darkened:
Two swords crossed in front of the Hun;
Never a groan but God has harkened,
Counting their cruelties one by one.
Author: Katharine Lee Bates
Source: Crossed Swords
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O great corrector of enormous times,
Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood
The earth when it is sick, and curest the world
O' the pleurisy of people.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: The Two Noble Kinsmen (act V, sc. 1)
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All quiet along the Potomac they say
Except now and then a stray picket
Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro,
By a rifleman hid in the thicket.
Author: Ethel Lynn Beers (Ethelinda Eliot)
Source: The Picket Guard
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She is a wall of brass;
You shall not pass! You shall not pass!
Spring up like Summer grass,
Surge at her, mass on mass,
Still shall you break like glass,
Splinter and break like shivered glass,
But pass?
You shall not pass!
Author: Harold Begbie (used pseudonym "A Gentleman with a Duster")
Source: You Shall Not Pass, in the New York "Tribune"
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Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone,
But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women carry on.
Author: Janet Begbie
Source: Carry On
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Gaily! gaily! close our ranks!
Arm! Advance!
Hope of France!
Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks!
Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!
Author: Pierre Jean de Beranger
Source: Les Gaulois et Francois, (C.L. Bett's translation)
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The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an
indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be
repeatedly emphasized.
Author: Friedrich von Bernhardi
Source: Germany and the next War (ch. I)
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All's fair in love and war.
Author: Francis Edward Smedley
Source: None
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The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.
Author: Studs Terkel
Source: None
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Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.
Author: Thucydides
Source: None
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Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima.... The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.
Author: Harry S. Truman
Source: None
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When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.
Author: Barbara Tuchman
Source: None
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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars — all over Europe, all over the world. 'Sometimes in the private interest of royal families,' Satan said, 'sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose — there is no such war in the history of the race.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.
Author: Tzu Sun
Source: None
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Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
Author: Abigail Van Buren
Source: None
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The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly organized.
Author: Thomas Vian
Source: None
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You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that the wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freashly shaved faces, it was a shock. 'My God, my God —' I said to myself, 'it's the Children's Crusade.'
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Source: None
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It was necessary for us to discover greater powers of destruction than our enemies. We did. But after every war we have followed through with a new rise in our standard of living by the application of war-taught knowledge for the benefit of the world. It will be the same with the atomic bomb principles.
Author: Thomas J. Watson
Source: None
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We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
Author: Alan Watts
Source: None
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'What war?' said the Prime Minister sharply. 'No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned,' he said defiantly, 'if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?'
Author: Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
Source: None
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Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or wickedness of government may engage it?
Author: Daniel Webster
Source: None
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If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future industry will replenish it. If war desiccate and lay waste our fields, under new cultivation they will grow green again and ripen to future harvest. If the walls of yonder Capitol should fall and its decorations be covered by the dust of battle, all these can be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of a demolished government; who shall dwell in the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty; who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites sovereignty with state's rights, individual security with prosperity?
Author: Daniel Webster
Source: None
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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Author: Dame Rebecca West
Source: None
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As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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The real war will never get in the books.
Author: Walt Whitman
Source: None
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Author: Gary Wills
Source: None
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The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.
Author: Robert Anton Wilson
Source: None
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Peace begets prosperity; Prosperity begets pride; Pride begets prejudice; Prejudice begets war; War begets poverty.
Author: Proverb
Source: None
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And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Author: The Bible
Source: None
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Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they?
Author: Erwin Rommel
Source: None
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