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We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.
Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.
When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.
I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.
Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.
The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).
...we feel that our honor and safety require that Ft. Sumter should be in our possession at the very earliest moment.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.
The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.
Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.
The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.
I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.
War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.
Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!
I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
If you're crying under fire, then you wasn't built for war. If a pimp took your girl, then your girl was never yours.
Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.
It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.
Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.
Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper.
We need to focus on killing the bad guys, not getting stuck in Middle Eastern civil wars that don't keep America safe.
I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.
War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.
In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.
A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.
It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.
I joke that I spent 38 years scouring the globe, going to war zones, trying to find the person with my exact birthday.
The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow...
The laws of war right now say that we can respond when our country is threatened. That is what international law says.
Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.
What people really suffer from is immaturity. Among mature people war would not be a problem - it would be impossible.
The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.
The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror... so today I vetoed it.
We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom.
Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.
The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.
The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
I am very, very, very concerned about the United States getting drawn into an endless war, year after year after year.
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
war is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people.
The people who are slamming me have no idea about what it feels like to unjustly have a child killed in an insane war.
If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.