Quotes with war-oriented

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  • Alexis de Tocqueville No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Alva Myrdal Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Elie Wiesel None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.
    Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • John F. Kennedy Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war, not merely peace for Americans, but peace for all men; not merely peace in our time, but peace for all time.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
    The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Juvenal Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Gerald Kersh Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on.
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  • Andrew Jackson Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Adolf Galland Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Bayard Taylor Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Herbert Hoover Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Abraham Pais One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
    To Save A Life : Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000)
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Barack Obama Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Our discussion has shown that while in war many different roads can lead to the goal, to the attainment of the political object, fighting is the only possible means.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Bill Clinton Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas - to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Alfred Adler Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Carolyn McCarthy Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.
    Carolyn McCarthy
    American nurse and politician (1944 - )
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