Quotes 421 till 440 of 646.
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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.
Source: 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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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.
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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.
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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.
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The state of crisis is the real war; the equilibrium is nothing but its reflex.
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The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.
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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.
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The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.
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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
Source: Towards A Canada of Light Interlude, p. 113 -
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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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.
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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.
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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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