Quotes with war-oriented

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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery The frightful casualties appalled me. The so-called good fighting generals of the war appeared to me to be those who had a complete disregard for human life. There were of course exceptions and I suppose one was Plumer; I had only once seen him and I had never spoken to him.
    Regarding the generals of the First World War. 1
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Charles F. Kettering The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required ''blood and sweat and tears.''
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 198
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Bob Schieffer The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Arthur Keith The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Arleigh Burke The major deterrent to war is in a man's mind.
    Arleigh Burke
    American admiral of the US Navy (1901 - 1996)
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  • Bob Simon The military has been determined to control the images of war since Vietnam. They're convinced that they lost the war because of loss of political support back home, because people saw what was going on.
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  • Barry Commoner The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
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  • Barbara Corcoran The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Arthur Koestler The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Adrienne Rich The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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