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We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.
It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.
To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.
We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth.
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
Bush, as far as I'm concerned, is a war criminal. With Trump, we have no idea. Right now it's just a freak show.
Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.
The tragedy is that, as modern viewers, we've completely lost touch with what it physically takes to wage a war.
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.
People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.
My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.
At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.
As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.
We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.
We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.
War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.
If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.
In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.
There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.
All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?
To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.
One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.
When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.
When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand.
A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.
People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.
In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.
We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.