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A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
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A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
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Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
On War (1832) Ch. 7, as translated by Michael Howard and Peter P -
After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.
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After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
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After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
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After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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