Quotes with laws-of-war

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Marquis de Sade Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Adolf Galland Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Barbara Lee Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • A. Lawrence Lowell No laws, however liberal, will release us from our self-imposed taxes.
    A. Lawrence Lowell
    American educator and legal scholar (1856 - 1943)
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  • Aldous Huxley No less than war or statecraft, the history of economics has its heroic ages.
    Collected essays (1959)
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Henry Miller No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Calvin Coolidge No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or insure it victory in time of war.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Calvin Coolidge No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
    The quotable Calvin Coolidge: sensible words for a new century (2001)
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Winston Churchill No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Alva Myrdal Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Elie Wiesel None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.
    Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • John F. Kennedy Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war, not merely peace for Americans, but peace for all men; not merely peace in our time, but peace for all time.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Joyce Carol Oates Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
    Joyce Carol Oates
    American writer (1938 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Mark Twain Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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