Quotes with war-making

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  • Bill Kristol In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Jami In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.
    Jami
    Arabic Sufi poet, scholar and writer
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  • Adam Schiff In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • John Ruskin In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Lord George Byron In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.
    Childe Harold 1, 20
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bahman Ghobadi In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Joseph R. Sizoo In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.
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  • Walter Lippmann In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Bela Lugosi In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Bill Dedman In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bob Graham In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Carol P. Christ In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • William Tecumseh Sherman In our Country one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
    William Tecumseh Sherman
    American soldier, businessman, educator and author (1820 - 1891)
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  • Arthur Henderson In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Croesus In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
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  • Anna Louise Strong In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Alexander Hamilton In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Arthur Henderson In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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