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Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision.
Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.
Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.
The mind is either at war with God or it is being renewed. There is no middle ground.
I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.
It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.
We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.
To go to war without the Security Council will not be in conformity with the Council.
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Men are brave enough to go to war, but they are not brave enough to get a bikini wax.
So, I subscribe to the following reading: Star Wars is an essentially Christian tale.
For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.
War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.
'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?
The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
The starting point for the understanding of war is the understanding of human nature.
It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.
Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy.
National Defense is not a threat to peace; it is the guarantee of peace with freedom.
When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged.
If it weren't for the Japanese and the Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies.
The Cold War began with the division of Europe. It can only end when Europe is whole.
The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.
Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.
I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.
Unfortunately, the war has cost America greatly - politically - throughout the world.
The last major childhood disease remains and it's the worst of them all: nuclear war.
I got into the genesis of Star Wars, and the tale seemed to me endlessly fascinating.
It's time for fathers to war for their kids more than the culture wars for your kids.
It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.
We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again.
Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's.