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.
A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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.
I need eight weeks, train hard, last one week make weight, and go to the war. Because when I go to the war, I have to know I am ready or no.
All oppression creates a state of war.
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.
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
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.
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.
I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir 'Goodbye to All That', and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth', by Vera Brittain.
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