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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?”
Daniel Webster Quotes |
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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?”
Daniel Webster Quotes |
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“Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.”
Dame Rebecca West Quotes |
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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.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“The real war will never get in the books.”
Walt Whitman Quotes |
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“Only the winners decide what were war crimes.”
Gary Wills Quotes |
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“The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.”
Robert Anton Wilson Quotes |
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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.”
The Bible Quotes |
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“Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they?”
Erwin Rommel Quotes |
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“Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. •Otto Von Bismarck Peace with a club in hand is war. •Portuguese Proverb The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. •Bernard Mannes Baruch The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. •Chinese Proverb Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.”
Otto von Bismarck Quotes |
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“If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work. •Henry Lewis Stimson War is like love, it always finds a way.”
Henry Lewis Stimson Quotes |
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“War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. •Benito Mussolini In time of war the first casualty is truth. •Boake Carter Only the defeated and deserters go to war. •Henry David Thoreau All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.”
Benito Mussolini Quotes |
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“The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. •Hyman Rickover A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. •Sir Winston Churchill The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.”
Hyman Rickover Quotes |
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“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
Sir Winston Churchill Quotes |
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“It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. •Kenneth Clark You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. •Jeannette Rankin War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.”
Douglas MacArthur Quotes |
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“War is cruel and you cannot refine it. •William T. Sherman War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.”
William T. Sherman Quotes |
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“DepLeted uranium is a warcrime
in progress.
Doug Rokke
appointed by Norman Schwarzkopf as
commander of a cleanup crew of several hundred,
30 of whom have died of cancer
http://indymedia.org.”
Doug Rokke Quotes |
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“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.”
Bertrand Russell Quotes |
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“War is the unfolding of miscalculations.”
Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes |
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“War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.”
French Proverb Quotes |
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“I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.”
Edmund Burke Quotes |
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“The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.”
Lester Bowles Pearson Quotes |
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“In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention.”
Saint Thomas Aquinas Quotes |
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“Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!”
David G. Farragut Quotes |
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“A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.”
Richard M. Nixon Quotes |
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