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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.
One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out.
Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!
The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd is defensive.
We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.
The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting.
There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."
What the Spanish War began the World War accomplished: America became the world's banker and ceased to be the world's pioneer!
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a "Star Wars" defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.
Boris [Johnson] and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].
Experts say that if we go to war with Iraq, oil could reach as much as $80 a barrel. Of course, after the war it will be free.
It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before.
I don't want to have the threat of the sky falling on my head or some idiot pushing some button that sets off World War Three.
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.
The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.
With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await the advent of the enemy.
And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.
I adore war. It is like a big picnic but without the objectivelessness of a picnic. I have never been more well or more happy.
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.
Being against the military because you are against war is like being against the Fire Department because you are against fire.
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.
Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs
The cruelty, war and violence, this is evil, wrong and dark and that's what we should hide from the children, not a human body!
In April 1975 I was born and the Vietnam War ended. I could not let any American die in war before seeing an episode of Scrubs.
One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.
Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.
If we remain determined to shape a new and better world of separate, sovereign nations, this new century will be a happier one.
Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.
Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.
Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.
This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.
All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.
The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.
Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.
the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.
We should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again.
To win that war [with radical Islamic extremists] we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.