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A poet who knew that a war leader in his speech on the eve of battle will be both a man of civilization and its raging opposite. — Adam Nicolson

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war. — B.H. Liddell Hart

One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it. — Sun Tzu

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

The best that can be said of the Alexandrian War is that Caesar acquitted himself brilliantly in a situation in which he stupidly found himself. — Stacy Schiff

After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance. — John Cullum

What's the saying? All is donkey balls in love and war?
-Dan Garrett — Leah Rae Miller

In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor. — Etgar Keret

The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace. — Kenneth Waltz

There are no atheists in the foxhole. — Ernie Pyle

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

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

You are not going to loot a candy shop in the middle of a war! — Rick Riordan

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction. — Friedrich Nietzsche

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ. — William Ellery Channing

We are evidently preparing," he said, "to fight World War Three in the midst of an enormous Spanish omelet. — Kurt Vonnegut

I shall strive to inculculate in my men the spirit of the chase. — J. E. B. Stuart

While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large part, because of the civility of Grant and Lee. — Douglas Brinkley

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. — Gaius Iulius Caesar

The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none. — Cofer Black

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind. — William Lyon Phelps

The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation. — Kim Dotcom

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

To be a strong and empathetic person always requires us to trust that God will send angels to the people's heart we tried to reach, but couldn't. — Shannon L. Alder

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain. — Abraham Lincoln

I'm in the infantry. What you just showed me, for us that's not even good pornography. — Henry V. O'Neil

The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say ... 'How can you subdue such a nation as this!' — Arthur Fremantle

Honestly, a lot of liberals are foot soldiers in the war on Christmas. — Tucker Carlson

In 1945 music had a serious purpose; to defy post war depression & revitalize the romantic & hopeful aspirations of an exhausted ppl. — Pete Townshend

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less. — Ronald Reagan

The want of parsimony, in time of peace, imposes the necessity of contracting debt in time of war. When — Adam Smith

Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex. — Phil Klay

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. — Red Auerbach

All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder. — Obafemi Awolowo

There were time to drool over a sexy wolf.
Sitting in the middle of a war room disguised as a board meeting was not one of those times. — Carrie Ann Ryan

Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war, only patriots - or traitors. — Stephen A. Douglas

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. — David Allen

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. — Christopher Hitchens

We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler? — Josephine Baker

You're going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabbard with your sword, Lelldorin. — David Eddings

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — David Mitchell

In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach. — Catherynne M Valente

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination. — Neil Gaiman

Men spoke of tribal war, of a gathering of vultures in the southeast, and a terrible leader who led his swiftly increasing hordes to victory. — Robert E. Howard

They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them. — Leo Tolstoy

The 3-D effects in "Star Wars" are so realistic, you can actually see George Lucas reaching from the screen and taking the money from your wallet. — Craig Ferguson

In war the first casualty is the truth. — Aeschylus

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last. — Winston Churchill

If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war. — Muhammad Ali

I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood. — Cassandra Clare

War is not pretty from any angle, and the most vulnerable organ in the body is the brain. — G. Frank Lawlis

If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans. — Otto Von Bismarck

It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists. — John Yoo

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

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched. — Noam Chomsky

That's what war was. A great motion and then a great stillness in which the winner crouches and the loser lies facing the sky. — Kathy Hepinstall

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 great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount. — Douglas MacArthur

A world without war is not in the cards. — Martin Van Creveld

For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war. — Pope Francis

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

I have become a conscientious objector in the war between the sexes. — Edna Buchanan

Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world. — Rob Walton

The guns reminded me that this was just an attempt to punch holes in the darkness that enveloped us now. — Michael Poeltl

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone. — Ernst Zundel

The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought. — Kurt Vonnegut

O' the blue-bodied cowherd - ever playful in love and war. Don't you fail to see the immensity of his wisdom and light. — Jaggi Vasudev

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so. — Ru Freeman

The war brought out all the art in me. — Horace Pippin

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left? — Napoleon Bonaparte

Both my New Hampshire great-grandfathers wore facial hair: the Copperhead who fought in the war and the sheep farmer too old for combat. — Donald Hall

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative. — Golda Meir

Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment. — Tom Brokaw

The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity. — Barbara Tuchman

In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles ... — Jane Porter

With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer. — Anthony Liccione

And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness? — Edward Bellamy

In the tranquillity of a garden, we detest the war and love the peace much more than any other places! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence. — Sun Tzu

In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell. — Arthur Miller

Everyone has friends who were killed in the War. Everyone gives up something when they marry. — Virginia Woolf

One should have insight into this world of dreams that passes in the twinkling of an eye. — Hojo Shigetoki

Right here, in this same headquarters, 52 years ago, the Convention that gave the birth certificate to the war on drugs was approved — Juan Manuel Santos

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. — Stephen Ambrose

Forgetfulness of God's grace is one of the greatest tools in the enemy's war against our souls. — Mark Dever

Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it. — Barbara Holland

Updates from Coin about the nature of the bombs. Certainly, the war is still being waged, but as to its status, we're in the — Suzanne Collins

The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public. — Patrick J. Kennedy

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Thus we lived through a major war. The questions in the ghettos was, can we make it through a minor peace? — Maya Angelou

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good. — Jacqueline Winspear

Love is war. The best tactic in attack is surrender. — Chloe Thurlow

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. — Roger Zelazny

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. — Henry A. Kissinger

I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do. — Steven Galloway

When Winston Churchill was asked to cut arts funding in favour of the war effort, he simply asked,'then what are we fighting for? — Kazuo Ishiguro

In the World War, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn't join the army. — Smedley D. Butler