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If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.
I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not by the revolt of life.
So now it turns out that Thomas Jefferson was having sex with Sally Hemings while serving in the 101st Airborne during the Vietnam War.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.
If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.
As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it.
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.
You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
The Japanese Prime Minister has apologized for Japan's part in World War II. However, he still hasn't mentioned anything about karaoke.
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.
All forces are a deterrent to and would be employed in a general war. Most of our forces could be employed in a limited war, if required
The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.
When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.
I think architectural appreciation would be a minor occupation after a nuclear war. People would just be happy to have something to eat.
When I say war, I'm not talking about mental war; I'm talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.
Shall we upon the footing of our land Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, Insinuation, parley, and base truce, To arms invasive?
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.
I really think that the Liberal Party is dead and that one will simply have to think of men and policies after the war - not of parties.
Happy hour is slightly different in the Soviet Union. There are no ice cubes or orange-peel twists in the vodka. Also, it lasts all day.
I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.
[The Republicans] looked at basically the failed wars and they said, oh, this, us being the policeman of the world, that is not working.
Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.
When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war
If they can send you to war at 18, maybe it's beneficial for some people to think that most of us gotta go to war for our own existence.
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.
My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.
We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.
God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.
We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.
ISIS and Iran have declared war on America, and we need a commander in chief who will do everything necessary to keep our children safe.
My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.
In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.
And it's been proved that soldiers don't go mad Unless they lose control of ugly thoughts That drive them out to jabber among the trees.
In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.
There isnt a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.
I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.
And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades.
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.