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No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!
If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.
Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.
Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.
Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.
The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.
There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.
Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves...After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do.
We are in a new Civil War, and just like the last, it is a struggle for the sanctity of the Union - and it's hardly civil.
I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.
In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.
Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.
War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.
As we head to war with Iraq, President Bush wants to make one thing clear: This war is not about oil. It's about gasoline.
Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.
Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit.
I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.
It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.
How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.
After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.
The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.
People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you.
The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.
The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.
There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
In 1979, we thought it would be easier to take power. The intervention of the United States has changed the circumstances.
It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.
The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free.
War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.
I'm not always a positive person. I wake up grumpy, I read the newspaper and I get furious that the world is still at war.
Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong.
In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.
One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.
Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.
Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)
War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.
I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.