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It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.
There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
State terrorism - and yet the Israeli invasion Goldstone investigated is still commonly referred to as the Gaza War.
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
The war on drugs is identical to the prohibition of alcohol: all you're doing is making criminals rich and powerful.
Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.
The war on terror, rebranded under Obama as the "Overseas Contingency Operation," has morphed into war on democracy.
Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.
We have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about.
Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.
Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.
If you're going to war over religion, now you're just getting into a fight over who has the better imaginary friend.
I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.
Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror.
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.
The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.
If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time.
We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.
The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.
If the Nazis have been destroyed it's because America got into the war. They went for it and they got into the fight.
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.
An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.
The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants
We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.
In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.
We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize.
A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.
The best way to fight terrorism is to do it through a peaceful way. I believe that a war can never be ended by a war.
The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.
The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three.
We're running a war by politicians and we're running a war by political correctness as per that question [with ISIS].
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.
I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be. I am against the war and I am very vocal about it.
Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.