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People of this world, look upon this city and see that you should not and cannot abandon this city and this people.
Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.
Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.
It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
Walk softly and carry a big stick. Or stomp loudly and carry enough firepower to start a small war. Whatever worked
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse.
Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else.
Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.
We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.
Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.
The prisoners still keep killing each other thay hung six yesterday thay fight all most every night in the stockade.
If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.
We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.
Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq, because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.
Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.
Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.
Acting in "Star Wars," I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.
Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.
The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.
Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.
Of all my accomplishments I may have achieved during the war, I am proudest of the fact that I never lost a wingman.
Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike.
Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.
It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.
Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.
Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.
Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.
You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.
WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.
This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.