Quotes with laws-of-war

Quotes 161 till 180 of 869.

  • Alva Myrdal First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Bobby Jindal First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Capper Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Beryl Markham For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. It demands no requirements for inclusion save an understanding of the wind, the compass, the rudder, and fair fellowship.
    Beryl Markham
    English-born Kenyan aviator, racehorse trainer and author (1902 - 1986)
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  • Bruce Jackson For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • William James For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Barbara Boxer For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Aeschines For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
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  • Francis Bacon For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Arthur Henderson Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Charles de Gaulle France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Joseph Heller Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
    Joseph Heller
    American author (1923 - 1999)
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  • Margot Asquith From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Aaron C. Brown From the lottery to raise the funds for the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 to the lottery used to pay the interest on Dutch loans to the United States during the Revolutionary War, the development of the United States was funded by gambling.
    The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 4
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Bob Graham Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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