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There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.
— Henry M. Cist
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
No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.
— Anton Walbrook
War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.
— Robert Aumann
Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat.
— Jefferson Davis
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
— Anatole Broyard
If history only remembers one in a thousand of us, then that future will be filled with stories of who we were and what we did.
— Electronic Arts
Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war.
— Michele Bachmann
In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.
— M.F. Moonzajer
He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.
— Dave Malloy
Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.
— Martin Cruz Smith
The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
— Douglas MacArthur
The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified. — Paul Fussell
And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.
— James Hilton
Very few people in the USA realize that a nuclear war was waged with nature in the southwest by their own military.
— Steven Magee
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
— Jon Meacham
The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.
— Douglas MacArthur
Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents.
— T.H. White
It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.
— Abraham Lincoln
For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.
— David Broder
The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history ... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Although most Americans believed in Manifest Destiny, few could agree on exactly which lands the United States was supposed to govern.
— Charles W. Carey Jr.
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
— Thucydides
It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.
— Randall Wallace
I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.
— Douglas MacArthur
A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
— Henry Kissinger
The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.
— Edgar Quinet
If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
— Nguyen Cao Ky
America is the world's top war-master; the most sophisticated killer-culture in history.
— Bryant McGill
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
Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.
— Winston S. Churchill
No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.
— Bill Murray
In Britain, these Jewish refugees were greeted with a mixture of grudging acceptance by some and open hostility by others.
— Thomas Harding
The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.
— Michael Ondaatje
In the whole course of history, war had always fallen on the shoulders of the young.
— Alexandra Bracken
Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War.
— Nicholas Sparks
No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
— Phyllis Schlafly
True holy war in human history has ceased because Jesus has fought its last episode on the cross.
— Karen H. Jobes
There's never been a war in the history of the world that wasn't started by the wealthy for the wealthy
— Deborah Smith
Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.
— William C. Oates
Everyone feels guilty before a mother who has lost her son in a war; throughout human history men have tried in vain to justify themselves.
— Vasily Grossman
I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.
— Kevin J. Anderson
The real war will never get in the books.
— Walt Whitman
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— Sir Laurens Van Der Post
There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.
— Robert M. T. Hunter
It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.
— John Bartholomew Gough
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.
— Robert A. Heinlein
She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.
— Nancy B. Brewer
If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.
— Winston S. Churchill
No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.
— A.J. Muste
Nothing in recent history makes any sense without a deep understanding of WWII and The Holocaust.
— A.E. Samaan
I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
— Anson Mount
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
— Barbara Tuchman
World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
— Lane Evans
Perhaps when the next Great War comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.
— George Orwell
The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
— George Meredith
We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.
— Erich Maria Remarque
A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.
— Michael Baumgartner
I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.
— Philip Sheridan
The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting.
— Aslan Maskhadov
It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.
— Sybille Bedford
Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.
— Ivica Dacic
Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.
— James Buchanan
The art of Europe is drowned in the centuries in the war-scarred face of a motherland..
— John Geddes
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.
— Charles Krauthammer
I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
— Carl Sagan
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
— Richard M. Nixon
History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.
— Shigeru Yoshida
