Quotes 441 till 460 of 646.
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The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam
Source: Speech UN 24-09-2014 -
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.
Source: In the House of Lords on American policy in Vietnam, 1962. -
The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
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The war existing between the senses and reason.
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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.
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The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
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The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
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The words fill my head, and fall to the floor, that if God's on our side, he'll stop the next war.
Source: The Times They Are A-Changin (1964) -
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
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Their peace and their war
Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.Source: Poems, 1913-1956 -
Then leave Complaints: Fools only strive
To make a Great an Honest Hive.
T'enjoy the World's Conveniences,
Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease,
Without great Vices, is a vain
Eutopia seated in the Brain.Source: The Fable of the Bees The Moral, line 1, p. 23 -
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
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There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
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There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.
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