War
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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.
War does not determine who is right — only who is left.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other — instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
When you walk through the hospital, you waiver between feeling bad for everyone else and feeling bad for yourself. It's a war of the worlds — the healthy and the sick.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
Endless money forms the sinews of war.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
We've waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy.
The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.
We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.
All oppression creates a state of war.
We owe our World War II veterans — and all our veterans — a debt we can never fully repay.
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