Quotes 461 till 480 of 646.
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There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life
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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys it is all hell.
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
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There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
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There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.
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There never was a good war or a bad peace.
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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
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There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.
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These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.
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They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
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They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
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They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war.
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They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too. And there will still be no conventional war.
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Source: Notes on the Next War (1935) -
This Clash of Civilizations has led to a Clash of Religions, leading in turn to war, terror and extreme poverty.
Source: International Business and Leadership Symposium address
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