Using the Oval office to cheat on your wife makes you a bad husband and an irresponsible leader. Using the Oval office… — Jules Carlysle Copy Share Image
Embarking upon war is always dangerous for national leaders because it makes them more than ever at the mercy of events. When… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Sometimes it was easier to swim with the current rather than fight against it. There was always a shallow pool somewhere ahead.… — Helen Hollick Copy Share Image
In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
When you go into a country like Libya where a large chunk of the population wants the old regime back you could… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
You can't put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn't be on revolution, it should be on communication.… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
We are all anxious to be accepted. But if you have a strong mother and father who tell you that you don't… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
The accusation that President Clinton cares deeply about nothing is refuted by his tenacious and guileful battle to prevent any meaningful limits… — George Will Copy Share Image
When we succeeded in winning the Cold War, escaping a nuclear Armageddon that could have killed us all, the U.S. inevitably had… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image
A conflict arises when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible. This means an… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
General Zia-ul-Haq, a dictator and unscrupulous political actor, used Islam as a pretext for waging war in Afghanistan and adopting an aggressive… — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
Even though Lyndon Johnson's presidency was in many ways scarred forever by the war in Vietnam, and destroyed in a lot of… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I don't know that a movie like Doctor Strange couldn't have been the second or third film we made. I don't think… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with soldiers deployed in… — Eric Massa Copy Share Image
The drone war takes place 24/7, 365 days a year. The war doesn't stop on Christmas. It's like being a fireman when… — P. W. Singer Copy Share Image
“Armageddon,' Sandy said. 'The final battle. The ultimate confrontation between good and evil. That's what armageddon is supposed to be. Right?' Hobbins… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The war was a factory that cranked out casualties with all the frightful efficiency of the modern assembly line. That had become… — Paul Witcover Copy Share Image
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
I have not much faith in women in fiction… Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“By this time the Vietnam War was such a confusing issue to most Americans that Nixon could take as many positions as… — Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy Copy Share Image
We were required to predict a soldier's performance in officer training and in combat, but we did so by evaluating his behavior… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Every Warrior of the Light has felt afraid of going into battle. Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in… — Paul Coelho Copy Share Image
My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death.… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you the truth about the world to which you so desperately want to return. It is a place of… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“to the American power elite one of the longest lasting and most essential foreign policy goals has been preventing the rise of… — William Blum Copy Share Image
The face of destiny or luck or God that gives us war also gives other kinds of pain: the loss of health… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote… — Eisaku Sato Copy Share Image
Wars of necessity are essentially unavoidable. They involve the most important national interests, a lack of promising alternatives to the use of… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
But if out of smugness, or even cowardice, this battle is not fought to its end, then take a look at the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There is danger involved in combat sports, but this is the purest form of competition. It's all about finding the truth. When… — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
Do we substantially increase military spending and prepare for endless war in the middle-east, or do we make college affordable for all… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“He was a district attorney in Pennsylvania. I was a writer on Cape Cod. We had been privates in the war, infantry… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
ISIL videos, ISIL training videos are telling lone wolves the easiest way to cut by a combat assault weapon in America is… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“At the men's end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. The colonel told them that the declaration of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
