Quotes 661 till 675 of 675.
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You can’t say that civilization don’t advance ... for in every war they kill you a new way.
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You dig into yourself and the community to wage psychological war fare; you combat your own fears about beatings, shootings, and possible mob violence... you create a small striking force capable of moving out when the time comes.
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You don't fight a war with words, but with fortifications. The pickaxe and the shovel are as important at the rifle. I can't say it often enough.
Interview (3 October 1936), as quoted in Durruti in the Spanish Revolution (1996) by Abel Paz, as translated by Chuck W. Morse (2007), p. 537 -
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.
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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I tell you: it is the good war that hallows every cause.
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[On war debts incurred by foreign nations to the United States:] They hired the money, didn't they?
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As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
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For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
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In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
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These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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