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When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.
There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.
And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.
My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize
When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.
Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?
My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.
The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.
It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.
The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
Nowadays, the tragedy of war is mediated through technology. It is no longer mediated through a human being with moral responsibilities.
It is clear before God and man that the entire war on HIV and AIDS has not been waged with any degree of piety, responsibility and care.
The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.
I think this has been a class war waged by the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I think the poor are fighting back.
All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.
Cyber-related risks are a global threat of bloodless war. India can work towards giving world a shield from the threat of cyber warfare.
I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also good soldiers of the cross.
I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?
You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war...not a good comparison.
Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.
Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.
I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.
As I've said repeatedly over the last few years, the war on coal was not a result of anything Congress passed; there was no legislation.
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.
As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.
Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
The War of 1812 perhaps the least remembered of American wars because it was fought in such a left-handed slapdash manner on both sides.
The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks to CNN and The Pentagon.
My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war.
When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.
Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.
I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.
The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.
I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.
The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.
I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.
It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up.
Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.
When I was a kid, I loved action, war, horror, monster movies... Anything with special effects. I was fascinated with how'd they do that.
I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines...imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps."