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Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.
A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.
I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'
Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us?
The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.
In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.
The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.
What is of the greatest importance in war is extraordinary speed: One cannot afford to neglect opportunity.
I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.
I'm used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tug-of-war.
The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.
We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought, and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.
We put labels on people and fight wars over them. If we truly want harmony, we have to get past the labels.
I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.
It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.
We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace. If we don't then we are responsible if wars continue.
And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.
War that hasn't affected us here, in the way that you would imagine a five-year war would affect a country.
Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.
Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too.
The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.
My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
The war against sexism is portrayed increasingly a battle long ago won. To which my response is, 'if only'.
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Let others make war, you happy Austria marry, for kingdoms given to others by Mars, Venus will give to you.
Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.
As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.
I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.
Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.
The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.
Is such an alliance helpful to us in this day and age? Are we creating a cold war in order to justify NATO?
There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.
I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.
War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do.
We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.
All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.
Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.