Quotes with laws-of-war

Quotes 81 till 100 of 869.

  • Barbara Mikulski America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Bill Shuster America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Florence King American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Arlen Specter American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Adam Schiff Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Anthony Burgess Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Dick Gregory And we love to dance - especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
    Dick Gregory
    African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer and entrepreneur (1932 - 2017)
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  • Barbara Castle And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Plato Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Marquis de Sade Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Ban Ki-moon As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Albert Ellis As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Albert Einstein As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • John Stuart Mill As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Anne Hutchinson As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Barack Obama As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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