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I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
Being in Russia filming War & Peace...filming War & Peace alone is an extraordinary experience, but to be out there was just magical.
Well, it was war - I could not have carried on as an administrative officer if I had let myself be swayed emotionally by my feelings.
Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it.
That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.
Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.
If I had a Volkswagon Beetle. I'd paint the front to resemble Glenn Langdon in War Of The Colossal Beast. Why? Two words: The Ladies.
Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3
Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former.
I said that we needed to have people on the ground, troops on the ground in a coalition similar to what we had in the first Gulf War.
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.
nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.
You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.
We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage.
Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.
The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation.
It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.
On both difficult and easy terrain, you must know the 'tenable' and 'fatal' ground. Occupy tenable ground and attack on fatal ground.
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.
Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.
A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime.
Capoeira is a game, it is dance, it is fight, it is of war and it is of peace, it is of culture, of music, it is a portion of things.
The most certain way of ensuring victory is to march briskly and in good order against the enemy, always endeavouring to gain ground.
It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.
Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.
Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.
Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.
War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.
Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.
From 1965 to 1973, more munitions fell on Cambodia than on all of World War II Japan, including the two nuclear bombs of August 1945.
As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy.
In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.
We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.
When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.
We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.
Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.
My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.
I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.
We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do.