War
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Of course, when you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war — diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power — and we are developing new tools as we go along.
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
To hold a pen is to be at war.
The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history — on our behalf.
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
When I was a child in England before the war, Christmas pudding always contained at least one shiny new sixpence, and it was considered a sign of great good luck for the new year to find one in your helping of the pudding.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.
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