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Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress. — Sun Tzu

When we went to war at the Falklands, Buck Kernan had to shake each man's hand as we boarded a boat for war. — Scott Raab

You know, it set you at war with yourself. — Elizabeth Wein

I grew up with the Gene Kelly look at war. The cheerful kind of stories you tell about a horrendous war. — Tim O'Brien

Don't be discouraged at the spiritual war you're called to fight every day. The Lord almighty is with you and wars on your behalf. — Paul David Tripp

Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease — Octavia Butler

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time. — Howard Dean

I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride. — Lana Del Rey

I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon. — Douglas MacArthur

If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children. — Barry McCaffrey

You cannot prepare for war and peace at the same time. — Albert Einstein

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam. — Barack Obama

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict — Juan Williams

There's eternal opposition between yin and yang.
No third party at all, but treason occurs sometimes. — Toba Beta

There's never peace in war ... perhaps it exists in one's mind at the time.. however short-lived — Will Leamon

We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam. — Barack Obama

You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love? — M.R. James

Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends. — Albert Einstein

It's not a world war yet, but we're at war, because ISIS has declared war on us. — Carly Fiorina

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran. — Zaha Hadid

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled. — Bruce Jackson

We are at war, and in time of war there is only one rule. Form your battalion and fight. — Kermit Roosevelt III

In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes. — John Maynard Keynes

Isn't it fascinating how our minds work when rational thought is at war with emotion? — Kate Watterson

Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution. — Mao Zedong

Arrogance is the armour of the weak. They are always at war to hide their real self. — Balroop Singh

What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. — John Green

She kissed their knife marred bodies, for every act of war has, at its heart, an act of mercy. — Spencer Ellsworth

If our hearts are at war, we would not be able to experience Heaven in our hearts — Tahira Amir Khan

I was like a little boy playing war, yelling, Bang, bang! Gotcha!, and looking up to see a real Sherman tank rolling right at me. It — Jeff Lindsay

The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post. — Leonid Andreyev

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world. — Vivienne Westwood

All are at war with the one who wars against self. — E'yen A. Gardner

You can't volunteer to go to war and then bitch about getting shot at. — Nathaniel Fick

I don't think they knew very much about the war in Korea at all. — Peter Scott

Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash. — Jerry Pournelle

The slaves toiling in the temple of this god began to feel rebellion at his harsh tasks. — Stephen Crane

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time. — Albert Einstein

At the end of the world, the war was going to come down to throwing stones. — Kameron Hurley

The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death. — Andrei Zhdanov

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution, — James F. Cooper

We were seventeen, furious at everything because we didn't know what else to do with the fact that the war was over. — Tea Obreht

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy ... Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world. — Omar N. Bradley

One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy. — Stefan Halper

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited. — Alice Walker

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself. — Aristotle.

The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home. — Dick Gregory

It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong. — Jim Butcher

Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the world. — Thomas Frank

We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home. — Craig L. Thomas

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. — William Hazlitt

No one can keep out of conflict, the entire world is at war, and even though the allies are doing better, the end is nowhere in sight. — Anne Frank

What, at Peace with the Father, and at War with the (His) Children! It cannot be. — John Flavel

During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time. — Erik Larson

Those fateful words We are now at war with Germany, and for several hours felt strangely numb. She tried to phone Pamela — Kate Atkinson

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals. — Peter Ustinov

The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst. — Travis Luedke

Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price. — Salman Rushdie

Already the hour had struck, and at his great Master's bidding he must march with war into the West. — J.R.R. Tolkien

What a queer topsy turvy world it was. It used to be the man who went to the wars, the woman who stayed at home. But here the positions were reversed. — Agatha Christie

At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war. — Paul Robeson

Glancing at the time on my phone, I cringe. Midnight. The witching hour. This was when Calease always came for me.
I hate midnight. — Erica Cameron

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism. — John Doolittle

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen. — Bill Mauldin

I have so many books on my shelves that I can now start a war with some country and have supplies for years to come throwing books at its citizens! — Ibrahim Ibrahim

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. — Robert A. Heinlein

As long as our voiced were in harmony, it didn't matter that our accents were at war. — Carsten Jensen

You could still tell at a glance who'd been over there and who'd sat the war out at home. You could smell it on a man. — M.L. Stedman

I don't think we're at war with Islam. I don't think we're at war with all Muslims. I think we're at war with jihadists. — Hillary Clinton

The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war. — Kurt Vonnegut

War is at best barbarism. — William Tecumseh Sherman

Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know. — Ken Livingstone

Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon. — Ann Coulter

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle. — Heinrich Heine

When people go at war they cheapen things. — Michael Pitt

The bow is tactically strong at the commencement of battle, especially battles on a moor, as it is possible to shoot quickly among the spearmen. — Miyamoto Musashi

Right now it's just me and my impatience having a silent war at the dinner table. — Colleen Hoover

I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of. — Abraham Lincoln

War is not one-sided. It takes two blades to clash. It matters little who comes out on top, there is still a dead man at the end. — Mitch Rowland

I see war as that insane enterprise wherein men dig up the riches of the earth and hurl them at one another. - ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH DANIEL HARRINGTON — Larry Niven

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men. — Walter Lippmann

Nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority. — Alexander Hamilton

The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution. — G. Edward Griffin

I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age. — Suzanne Collins

There's more."

"Of course there is," Brishen said flatly. It had started badly; it turned worse and hinted at becoming ruinous. — Grace Draven

A sailor at war with the wind and the sea. — Ed Brubaker

the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas — Sam Harris

Even if Hitler at the last moment would want to avoid war which would destroy him he will, in spite of his wishes, be compelled to wage war. — Emil Ludwig

Do not press an enemy at bay. — Sun Tzu

All patriarchal societies are either preparing for war, at war, or recovering from war. — George Carlin

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand- - that and such hope as I bring. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War. — Elbridge Gerry

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. — Winston Churchill

God is always at war with sin — G. Campbell Morgan

Esau has always been at war with Jacob. The struggle that began in their mother's womb between two natured peoples (or nations) continues today. — Jerry Hannah