Quotes with tug-of-war

Quotes 421 till 440 of 636.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Douclas MacArthur The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
    Douclas MacArthur
    American general (1880 - 1964)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The state of crisis is the real war; the equilibrium is nothing but its reflex.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bao Dai The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.
    Bao Dai
    Vietnamese emperor
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  • B. W. Powe The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
    Towards A Canada of Light Interlude, p. 113
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Adam C. Engst The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?
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  • Asa Hutchinson The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.
    Asa Hutchinson
    American businessman, attorney, and politician (1950 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Eugene J. Mccarthy The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.
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  • Barack Obama The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam
    Speech UN 24-09-2014
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery The US has broken the second rule of war. That is, don't go fighting with your land army on the mainland of Asia. Rule One is don't march on Moscow. I developed these two rules myself.
    In the House of Lords on American policy in Vietnam, 1962.
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Bruce Jackson The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Bill Viola The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Betty Williams The voice of women, the voice of those most closely involved in bringing forth new life, has not always been listened to when it pleaded and implored against the waste of life in war after war.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Norman Mailer The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Blaise Pascal The war existing between the senses and reason.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bob Ainsworth The war in Afghanistan is too important to be reduced to a political football. We are fighting there to protect our national security. We are confronting the Taliban-led insurgency to prevent terrorists returning to that country.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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