Quotes with laws-of-war

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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Will Rogers I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Assata Shakur I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 65
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Douglas Macarthur I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Abraham Pais I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.
    To Save A Life : Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000)
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Oscar Wilde I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in goal is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Albert Einstein I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ulysses S. Grant I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their strict execution.
    Ulysses S. Grant
    American Army general (1822 - 1885)
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  • Bill Hicks I loved when Bush came out and said, We are losing the war against drugs. You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it.
    Queens Theatre Late Show
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • John Adams I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Abbey Lincoln I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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  • Lord George Byron I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Burt Rutan I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Abba Eban I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Antonia Fraser I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Alan Dershowitz I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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