There are five possible operations for any army. If you…

There are five possible operations for any army. If you can fight, fight; if you cannot fight, defend; if you cannot defend, flee; if…

— Sima Yi

Attack if you can attack, defend if you can't attack, flee if you can't defend, surrender if you can't flee, die if you can't…

— Sima Yi

UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after…

— Kofi Annan

Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense…

— Ludwig von Mises

In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles…

— Noah Webster

There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds…

— Henry David Thoreau

You will recall that for months after 9/11, there was incredible support and sympathy for the US. I really hoped and wished they had…

— Kofi Annan

Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well…

— Anonymous

Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot.…

— Ronald Reagan

I don't think it's any different if I'm in the U.S. or in London. I look at operations globally.

— Shahid Khan

Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as…

— Edward Abbey

The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the next 40 years.

— Michael Ben-Ari

Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the…

— Cesare Pavese

Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take…

— Leon Panetta

I did not support Operation Desert Fox.

— Janeane Garofalo