Quotes with laws-of-war

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  • Bruce Cockburn It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • H. Ross Perot It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • Caspar Weinberger It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.
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  • Andrew Jackson It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Ernest Hemingway It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Barbara Olson It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Alex Cox It's interesting actually, what's gone on with that footage, and also what happened with the footage from the war in Afghanistan, is that our news reporting is pretty much along the lines of pornography now.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Harold Macmillan Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bill Dedman John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bill Clinton Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Noam Chomsky Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Bryant Gumbel Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Algernon Sydney Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Harriet Martineau Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Suzanne Lafollette Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.
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