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So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.
The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
Everyone has the right to practice their religion, to worship as they choose. My war is against Islamic fundamentalism.
Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.
Because of empathy, stories of the suffering of one person could lead us into a war that could kill millions of people.
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.
If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.
And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.
Lift up our eyes to you? no, God, we stare and stare, upon a nearer thing that greets us here, Death, violent and near.
For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.
War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.
One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.
I am a Death Dealer, sworn to destroy those known as the Lycans. Our war has waged for centuries, unseen by human eyes.
Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body.
I expect that Trump believes we do not have an obligation to have a Cold War with Russia, but that he is very cautious.
Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.
The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.
It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.
The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.
I watched Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg.
[Hillary Clinton] is going to decide war, peace, and health, education, livelihood for my kids. I want the best person.
Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said. "Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps.
I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.
Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.
In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.
It's very easy to start a war but the muftah, as the Arabs say, the key to switch off a war, is very difficult to find.
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.
O' the blue-bodied cowherd - ever playful in love and war. Don't you fail to see the immensity of his wisdom and light.
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.