Quotes 401 till 420 of 636.
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The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it.
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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.
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The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
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The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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The post-war publish or perish tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.
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The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.
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The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line - the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.
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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
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The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
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The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such as war and drought, and-most important of all-as the concrete means of developing a steadily higher living standard for all.
Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. IV, A Plan For Conserving Surplus, p. -
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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