951 private quotes tagged war

“To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.” — Sarah Palin

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“World War II was the last government program that really worked.” — George Will

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“In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.” — Herodotus

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“Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.” — John Andrew Holmes

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“It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.” — Michael Bloomberg

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“You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.” — Geraldine Ferraro

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“In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.” — Georges Clemenceau

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“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” — Baruch Spinoza

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“War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.” — William Hazlitt

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“People always make war when they say they love peace.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.” — Elizabeth I

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“Business is a combination of war and sport.” — Andre Maurois

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“What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?” — Benjamin Spock

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“We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.” — Anatole Broyard

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“War is hell.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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“The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.” — John Randolph

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“I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.” — William Westmoreland

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“During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.” — Howard Thurman

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“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.” — Havelock Ellis

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“They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.” — Henry A. Wallace

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“Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.” — Alfred Adler

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“Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.” — Abbie Hoffman

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“War is the unfolding of miscalculations.” — Barbara Tuchman

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